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DE©iCiNED     POR     ANNUAL     PUBLICATION. 

l^>  Y  IT.  AV.  1^.  JACKSOIS^, 

AIRKN,  SOUTH  CAUOLINA. 


tOliy  RIGHT    SECURED  (18«1)  ACCORDING  TO  ACT  OF  CON- 
GRESS OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 


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EXPLOITS 

CONFEDERATE  WAR  STEAMERS. 
YANKEE    GUNBOATS,    &<■'. 

BY  H.  W.  R.  JACKSON. 


ATf.ANTA,  <il.:oi:«,IA  : 

INTKLLIGENCRR  STEAM  POWEU  riU5S3. 


PREFACE. 


To  whom  are  we  indebted  for  our  recent  brillinat  achievements  and 
naval  successes,  but  to  woman.  The  noble  action  and  self-sacrificing 
devotion  of  our  ladies,  in  forwarding  money  and  raeans  for  tho  oonstruc- 
tion  of  gunboats  ahd  battering  rams  wherewitb  to  cope  with  an  insolent 
ajid  barb.irian  foe,  is  unequaled  in  all  times  past  both  ancient  and  modem. 
Hundreds,  aye  thousandp,  who  had  not  the  money  sent  forward  what 
jewelry  ©r  silver  plate  they  possessed  as  contributions.  Many  a  birth-day 
present  and  bridal  gift  has  been  sacrificed  upon  the  altar  of  liberty  that 
urged  on  our  men  of  daring  to  deeds  of  valor  and  renown.  History  does 
not  record  such  unbounded  and  unanimously  spontaneous  action  of  a 
people.  Did  we,  indeed,  lack  the  cavalier  spirit  of  death-daring  valor  ic 
our  Generals,  the  innate  heroism,  fortitude  and  devotion  of  our  women 
would,  doubtless,  call  forth  from  among  their  own  sex  a  leader  for  our 
■armies  to  forego  the  pleasures  of  ease  and  feminine  considerations  and 
respond  to  the  call  of  temporal  requirements  for  the  occasion  like  a  Joan 
of  Arc. 

U  is  but  a  lillle  more  than  a  year  since  our  women,  as  with  one  voice, 
have  called  upon  men  of  prominence  to  aid  them  in  the  construction  of 
floating  engines  of  war,  and  behold  the  result;  it  is  already  glorious, 
though,  as  yet,  at  the  first  bieaking  of  the  dawn  of  day  (the  day  of  tri- 
umph over  a  common  enemy,)  our  achievements  are  great. 


Galveston  was  recaptured  and  her  blockade  raised,  by  Qen.  Magruder, 
with  a  fleet  of  cotton  boats  prepared  for  the  purpose.  He  boro  down 
upon  the  Federal  blockading  fiebt,  capturing  four  vessels,  one  of  which 
the  Harriet  Lane,  a  formidable  ship  of  war,  was  taken  by  boarding ; 
another  one  of  the  largest  was  blown  up  with  all  on  boiird,  the  balance 
having  made  their  escape,  two  of  which  took  advantage  of  the  white 
flag,  which  was  raised  in  token  of  surrender,  but  seeing  an  opportunity 
for  escape  nin  the  gauntlet.  On  shore  the  whole  Federal  garrison  was 
captar:d,  wit!»  large  quantities  of  stores  and  supplies  of  ammunition. 

Soon  after  this  brilliant  achievement  the  blockade  of  Charleston  was 
raised  by  Commodore  Ingraham,  who  captured  and  sunk  three  ot  the 
cnemips  veasels.  This  success  was  followed  by  the  gratifying  results  upon 
the  Mississippi  and  the  Cumberland  Rivers,  where  we  captured  and  de- 
stroyed some  forty  of  the  enemies  gunboats  and  transports,  among  which 
were  eight  or  nine  of  the  most  formidable  gunboats  and  ironcladis. 

Since  the  first  of  January,  1863,  we  have  captured,  in  serviceable  con- 
dition, seven  of  the  most  formidable  engines  of  war  the  enemy  had  afloat, 
whi:h  arc  now  being  turned  to  account  in  a  good  cause,  serving  in  the 
Confederate  States  navy  against  God-defying  infidelity  and  hell-deserving 
Abolitionist.^,  who,  actuated  by  the  basest  instincts  of  brute  nature,  con- 
front us  with  lustful  designs  of  fiends  incarnate. 

In  their  last  and  vilest  of  efforts,  by  which  they  attempt  to  incite  to 
servile  revolt  our  contented  and  happy  aervaiits,  God  will  cause  their  bar- 
barous schemes  as  signally  to  fail  and  miscarry  as  have  all  their  former 
attempts  at  subjugation. 

Let  us  look  to  our  recent  successes  and  oousiJer  well  the  fortitude  and 
devotion  of  woman  ia  the  cause  of  independence  and  liberty  from  a 
tyranny  %Yhich '  will  saou  bo  ovor,  past,  provided,  wo  act  with  ever- 
increasing  vigilance  and  determination. 


Lit  ns  put  our  hope  and  trust  in  the  God  of  hosts,  for  He  hath  set  us 
apart  as  His  chosen  people,  hence  the  scourging  vie  are  now  receiving  by 
the  visitation  of  revolution  and  "war  which  has  deluged  our  fair  land  in 
blood  and  anguish.  If  there  is  a  people  upon  the  face  of  the  earth  thnt 
cannot  be  made  slaves,  but^vhich  he  has  appointed  fis  his  ovrn  people  and 
cagenf  8  to  perpetuate  the  work  of  civilization,  it  is  the  people  of  the  Con  - 
federate  States  of  America,  the  descendants  of  the  Caucassian  and 
Jewish  races  who  are  entrusted  with  the  fostering  care  and  protection  of 
the  African  race  as  an  institution  of  servitude  to  civilization.  We  arc 
commanded  to  foster  and  perpetuate  this  institutio.u  for  the  benefit  of 
future  ages.  God  has  commanded  us  to  buy  our  servants  from  the 
heathen  nations  to  be  an  inheritance  to  our  children  and  our  children'  e 
children.  The  majority  of  our  enemies,  though  at  the  commencement  of 
the  war  their  visions  were  clouded  wilh  blind  philanthrophy  and  fanati- 
cism, arc  now  being  informed,  by  the  force  of  circumstances,  by  unacCTs- 
tomed  intercourse  and  association  with  the  negro,  of  their  error  in  the 
course  and  policy  they  have,  adopted  with  regard  to  the  whole  African 
race,  finding  they  can  do  nothing  and  accomplish  less  with  such  as  have 
been  captured  and  others  who  were  induced  to  leave  their  good  and  kind 
masters  and  mistresses,  they  are  now  being  prepared,  drilled  and  armci". 
for  service  and  to  be  placed  in  the  front  lines  of  battle  (finding  them  an 
nnwielding  mass  of  helplessness  and  inferiority  for  the. accomplishment 
of  any  other  purpose.)  First  being  placed  in  the  front  lines  of  battle  the 
negro  will  serve  as  a  breast  work  to  6hield  the  bodies  and  preserve  the 
lives  of  degraded  and  polluted  Yankees. 

2nd.  Having  served  such  pur;>o£e  and  being  slain  opon  the  field  ol 
battle,  the  Yankees  have  no  more  trouble  wilh  Cufiee,  and  say  he  has  been 
turned  to  good  account. 

Thns  It  will  be  seen  that  the  poor  and  deluded  African  is  to  seive  a  two- 


^,^  PKEFACK. 


fold  purpose  to  the  Abolition  Yankee  of  the  East,  whose  principles  must    • 
be  corrnpting  to  the  most  depraved  and  demoniac  fiends  of  helL 

Permit  me  kind  reader,  to  ask  does  not  a  contemplation  of  the  Yankee 
ch  acter  excite  in  you  a  feeling  of  condemnation  and  scorn  mingled  with 
alternate  pity  and  contempt  for  our  demented  enemy  whose  every  ex- 
istence, being  and  io  be,  (now  and  forever,)  is  qualified  by  the  epithet 
k  Yankee  a  term  comprehensibly  expressive  of  all  that  is  impure,  inhuman, 
uncharitable,  unchristian  and  uncivilized  (barbarian  and  heathen  is 
scarcely  applicable  in  the  case,)  demons  of  hell  in  the  guise  of  men. 

I  have  not  done  yet.  If,  indeed,  there  should  be  a  discrepancy  it  will 
be  found  in  favor  of  language  not  containing  words  of  suflicieut  force  to- 
express  the  baseness  of  the  character  and  nature  of  the  Yankees  and  the 
perverting  influence  of  their  selt  established  creed,  which  has  given  birth 
to  all  the  demoralizing,  degrading  and  hellish  isms,  including  (the  last 
tW)agh  not  the  least)  equalityism  or  negrophilism. 

Pardon  me  condeming  the  Yankees  as  a  nation, 
For  they  are  not  deserving  eternal  salvation. 

H.  W.  R.  JACKSON. 


THE     WOMEN 


OK  riiK 


SECOND 

AMERICAN  REVOLUTION. 


A  FEMALE  SOLDIER. 

Among  the  strauge,  heroic  and  self-sacrificing  acts  of  woman 
in  this  struggle  for  our  independence,  we  have  heard  of  none 
which  exceeds  the  bravery  displayed  and  hardpliips  endured  by 
the  subject  of  this  notice,  Mrs.  Amy  Clarke.  Mrs.  Clarke  vol- 
nntcei*ed  with  her  husband  as  a  private,  fought  through  the 
battles  of  Shiloh,  where  JNIr.  Clarke  was  killed — she  performing 
the  rites  of  burial  with  her  own  hands.  She  then  continued 
with  Bragg's  army  in  Kentucky,  fighting  in  the  ranks  as  a  com- 
mon soldier,  until  she  was  twice  wounded — once  in  the  ankle 
and  then  in  the  breast,  when  she  fell  a  prisoner  into  the  hands 
of  the  Yankees.  Her  sex  was  discovered  by  the  Federals,  and 
she  was  regularly  paroled  as  a  prisoner  of  war,  but  they  did 
not  permit  her  to  return  until  she  liad  donned  female  apparel. — 
Mrs.  C.  was  in  our  city  on  Sunday  last,  en  route  for  J?ragg's 
command. — Jackson  Missiasipjnan,  Dec.  30,  1862. 


A  FEMALE  AID-DE-CAMP 

The  Baltimore  "  Clipper  "  says  Antonia  J.  Ferd  was  tlie  prin- 
cipal spy  and  guide  for  Captain  Mosbly  in  his  recent  raid  on 
Fairfax  Court  House,  and  aided  in  planning  the  arrest  of  Gen. 
Slaughter,  Wyndham  and  others.'  She  was  nrrested  and  brought, 
to  the  Old  Capitol  Prison,  on  Simd*Fiast,  with  $1,000  Con- 
federate money  on  her  person.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  her 
commission :  ^ 

To  all  vJiom  it  may  CoJicern  : 

Know  ye  that,  reposing  special  conlidencc  in  the  patriotism 
fidelity  and  ability  of  Antonia  J.  Ford,  I,  J.  E.  B.  Stuart,  by 
virtue  (-f  power  vostcdiu  rae  as  r»rigadier  General,  I'rovisional 
Arni^'''"!f<  d^-ntc  States,  hereby  appoint  and  commission  her 


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b  JIUC    WOMKN  OK  TJLIE 

my  Honorable  Aitl-de-Camp,  to  rack  as  such  frein  this  date. 
She  will  be  obeyecl,  respected  and  admired  by  all  lovers  of  a 
noble  nature. 

Ciivcn  under  ray  hand  and  eeal,  Headquarters  Cavalry  Brigade, 
at  Camp  Beverlv,  Tth  October,  18C1,  aud  first  year  of  our  Inde- 
pendence. '  .  J.  E.  ¥..  STUART. 

Bv  the  General: 

L.  T.  Bi\ys^,  A.  A.  G. 

MISS  BELLE  BOYD,  "TEE  REBEL  SPY." 

Tills  young  lady  has,  by  her  devotion  to  the  Soutlieru  cause, 
called  down  upon  her  head  the  anathemas  of  the  enth-e  Yankee 
pres3.  .  , 

Miss  Belle  is  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  B.  Boyd,  of  Martins- 
burg,  at  which  place  he  was  for  along  time  prominently  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  profession.  He  afterwards  removed  to  Kuox- 
ville,  Tennessee,  where  he  lived  .about  three  years,  but  returned 
to  Martiusburg  about  tv/o  ye.ars  previous  to  the  breaking  out 
of  the  present  war.  Her  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Captain 
Glenn,  of  Jefterson  county.  Miss  Belle  is  tlie  oldest  child  of 
her  parents,  and  is  about  23  years  of  age.  An  uncle  of  Miss 
Belle,  James  W.  Glenn,  of  Jefierson  county,  commanded  a 
company  during  the  present  w\ar,  known  as  the  "Virginia  Kan- 
gers,"  until  recently,  the  captaincy  of  Avhich  he  resigned  on 
account  of  ill-health.  James  E.  Stuart,  a  prominent  politician 
of  the  Valley,  and  who  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Conven- 
tion of  lB.uO,  married  a  sister  of  Miss  Belle's  mother. 

During  her  enrly  years  Miss  Belle  was  distinguished  for  her 
eprighthness  and  the  vivacity  of  her  temper. 

That  our  readers  may  liave  an  opportunity  of  seeing  what  the 
Yankee  correspondents  say  about  this  young  lady,  we  extract 
the  following  article  from  the  columns  of  the  Philadelphia  "In- 
quirer," which  was  written  by  the  army  correspondent  of  that 
sheet : 

"These  women  are  the  most  accomplished  in  Southern  circles. 
They  are  introduced  under  assumed  names  to  our  officers,  so  as 
to  avoid  <letcction  or  recognition  from  those  to  whom  their 
names  are  known,  but  their  persons  imknown.  By  such  means 
they  are  enabled  to  frequently  meet  combiuedly,  but  at  separate 
times,  the  officers  of^vcry  regiment  in  a  Avhole  column,  and  by 
simple  compilation  afll|||f)mparison  of  notes,  they  achieve  a  full 
knowledge  of  the  strength  oi  our  entire  force.  Has  modern 
warfare  a  parallel  to  the  use  of  such  accomplishments  for  such  a 
purpose  ?  The  chief  of  these  spies  is  the'celebrated  Belle  Boyd. 
Her  acknowlcilged  superiority  for  machination  and  intrigue  has 
given  her  the  leadership  and  control  of  the  female  spies  in  the 
valley  of  Virginia.  She  is  a  resident  of  Mai'tinsburg,  when  »t 
home,  and  has  a  pion?,  good  old  mother,  Avbo  rggrets  aa.  much 


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SECOND  AMERICAN  EEVOLUTION.  9 

as  any  one  cnn  the  violent  and  eceentrie  course  of  her  daughtei* 
since  this  rebellion  hns  broken  out.  Belle  has  parsed  the  Iresh- 
nesp  of  youth.  She  is  a  sharp-featured,  black-eyed  woman  of 
25,  or  care  and  intrigue  have  given  her  that  nppearance.  Last 
[Summer,  whilst  Patterson^s  army  lay  at  Martinisburg,  uhe  wove 
a  i-evolver  in  lier  belt,  and  was  courted  and  flattered  by  every 
Lieutenant  and  Captain  in  the  service  wlio  ever  saw  her.  There 
wns  a  kind  of  Di  Vernon  dash  about  lier,  a  smart  pertncss,  a 
(juickness  of  retort  and  utter  abandoniuont  of  manner  and  bear- 
ing which  were  attractive  from  their  very  romantic  uuwonted- 
ness. 

"The  fa' her  of  this  resolute  black-eyed  vixen  is  a  paymaster  in 
the  Southern  army,  and  formerly  held  a  place  at  Washington 
under  our  Government.  She  ha«  undergone  all  that  society, 
jKtsition  and  education  can  confer  upon  a  mind  suited  to  the 
days  of  Charles  the  Second,  or  Louis  the  Fourteenth — a  mind 
such  ns  ISIazarin  or  Richelieu  Avould  have  delightol  to  employ 
from  its  kindred  r.ffinities. 

"  Well,  this  woman  I  saw  practicing  her  arts  upon  our  young 
Lieutenants  and  inexperienced  Captains,  and  in  eacli  case  I  uni- 
formly felt  it  my  duty  to  call  them  aside  and  warn  them  of 
whom  she  was.  To  one  she  had  been  introduced  as  Miss  An- 
derson, to  another  as  Miss  Faulkner,  and  so  to  the  end  of  the 
chapter.  She  is  so  well  known  now  that  she  can  only  practice 
her  blandishments  upon  new  raw  levies  and  their  ofticejs.  But 
from  tliem  she  obtains  the  number  of  their  regiments  and  their 
force.  She  lias,  however,  a  trained  band  of  coadjutors,  who 
report  to  her  daily — girls  aged  from  ]G  upward — women  who 
have  the  common  sense  not  to  make  themselves  as  conspicuous 
as  she,  and  who  remain  unknown,  save  to  her,  and  are,  therefore, 
effective.  The  reports  that  she  is  personally  impure  are  as 
unjust  a«  they  are  undeserved.  She  lias  a  blind^  devotion  to  an 
idea,  and  passes  far  the  boundary  of  her  sex^s  modesty  to  pro- 
mote its  success. 

"  During  the  past  campaign  in  the  Valley  this  woman  has 
been  of  immense  service  to  the  enemy.  Slie  will  be  now  if  she 
can." — Tlluatroted  JVacs. 


MISS  KORAH    McCARTEY. 

A    RKAIINISCICNCK    OF    TlliS    MISSOUKl    CAMPAIGN. 

Thns  far,  Missouri  has  the  better  of  other  seats  of  hostility 
for  the  real  romnnf^e  of  war.  <Most  assuredly  the  light  there 
has  been  waged  with  fiercer  earnest  than  alraobt  arywl^re  tlse. 
The  remote  geography  of  the  country,  the  rough,  unhewn  char- 
acter of  the  people,  the  intensity  and  ferocity  of  the  p^=:£ions 
excited,  and  the  general  nature  of  the  complicity  reduced  to  a 
warfa^  essentially  parizan  and  frontier,  gave  to  its  progress  a 


10  THE  WOMEN  OP  THE 

wild  aspect,  peculiarly  susceptible  to  deeds,  and  suggestive  of 
thonorhts,  of  romantic  interest.  None  of  these  struck  us  more 
forcibly  than  the  story  of  Norah  McCtrtey,  the  Jennie  Deans 
of  the  West. 

She  lived  in  the  interior  of  Missouri — a  little,  pretty,  black- 
eyed  girl,  with  a  soul  as  huge  as  a  mountain,  and  a  form  as  frail 
as  a  fairy's,  and  the  courage  and  pluck  of  a  buccaneer  into  the 
bargain.  Her  father  was  an  old  man — a  secessionist.  She  had 
but  a  single  brother,  just  growing  from  boyhood. to  youthhood, 
but  sickly  and  lamed.  The  family  had  lived  in  Kansas  during 
the  trouble  of  '57,  when  Norah  was  a  mere  girl  of  fourteen,  or 
thereabouts.  But  even  then  Jier  beauty,  Mat  and  devil-may-care 
spirit  were  known  far  and  wide ;  and  many  were  the  stories  told 
along  the  border  of  her  sayings  and  doings.  Among  other 
charges  laid  to  her  door,  it  is  said  she  broke  all  the  hearts  of  the 
young  bloods  far  and  wide,  and  tradition  does  even  go  so  far  as 
to  assert  that,  like  Bob  Acres,  she  killed  a  man  once  a  week, 
keeping  a  private  church-yard  for  the  purpose  of  decently  bury- 
ing her  dead.  Be  this  as  it  may,  she  was  then,  and  is  now,  a 
dashing,  fine  looking,  lively  girl,  and  a  prettier  heroine  than  will 
be  found  in  a  novel,  as  will  be  seen  if  the  good  natured  reader 
lias  a  mind  to  follow  us  down  to  the  bottom  of  this  column. 

Not  long  after  the  Federals  came  into  her  neighborhood,  and, 
after  they  had  forced  her  father  to  take  the  oath,  which  he  did 
partly  because  he  was  a  very  old  man,  unable  to  take  the  field, 
and  hoped  thereby  to  save  the  security  of  his  household,  and 
partly  because  he  could  not  help  himself;  not  long  after  these 
two  important  events  in  the  history  of  our  heroine,  a  body  of 
luen  marched  up  one  evening,  whilst  she  was  on  a  visit  to  a 
neighbor's  and  arrested  her  sickly,  weak  brotlier,  bearing  him 
oif  to  -Leavenworth  City,  where  he  was  lodged  in  the  military 
guard-house. 

It  was  nearly  night  before  Norah  reached  home.  When  she 
did  so,  and  discovered  the  outrage  which  had  been  perpetrated 
and  the  grief  of  her  old  father,  her  rage  knew  no  bounds.  Al- 
though the  mists  were  falling  and  the  night  was  closing  in,  dark 
and  dreary,  she  ordered  her  horse  to  be  re-saddled,  put  on  a 
thick  suriouty  bolted  a  sash  round  lier  waist,  and  sticking  a  pair 
of  ivory-handlei  pistols  in  her  bosom,  started  ofi"  after  the  sol- 
diers. The  post  was  many  miles  distant.  But  that  she  did  not 
regard.  Over  hill,  through  marsh,  under  cover  of  the  darkness, 
she  galloped  on  to  the  headquarters  of  the  enemy.  At  last  the 
call  of  a  sentry  brought  her  to  a  stand,  with  a  hoarse — 

"  Who  goes  there  V"  > 

"No  matter,"  she  replied,  "I  wish  to  see  Col.  Prince,  your 
commanding  officer,  and  instantly,  too." 

(•  ^^Somewhat  awed  by^the  presence  of  n  young  female  on  horse- 
back at  that  late  hout^and  perhaps  struck  by  her  imperious 
tone  of  command,  the'^iaukee  guard,  without  hesitat^,  con- 


SECOND  AMKEIOAN  RE"Vn0LDTIOl!ir.  11 

ducted  her  intoi  the  fortifications,  and  thenee  to  tlie  quai'ters  of 
the  Colonel  commanding,  with  whom  she  was  left  alone. 

"  Well,  madam,"  quoth  the  Yankee  officer,  with  bland  polite- 
ness, "to  what  have  I  the  honor  of  this  visit?'* 

"  Is  this  Col.  Prince  ?"  replied  the  brare  girl,  quietly. 
"  It  is,  and  yourself?" 

"No  matter.     I  have  come  here  to  inquire  where  you  have  a 
lad  by  the  name  of  MtCartey  a  prisoner  ?" 
"There  is  such  a  prisoner." 
"  May  I  ask,  for  why  ?" 

"  Certainly ;  for  being  suspected  of  treasonable  connectiom 
with  the  enemy." 

"  Jrcasonable  connection  with  the  enemy !  Why,  the  boy  is 
sick  and  lame.  He  is  besides  my  brother;  and  I  have  come  to 
ask  his  immediate  release." 

The  Yankee  officer  opened  his  eyes ;  was  sorry  he  could  not 
comply  with  the  request  of  so  winning  a  supplicant ;  and  must 
really  beg  her  to  desist  and  leave  the  fortress." 
"  I  demand  his  release,"  cried  she,  in  reply. 
"  That  you  cannot  have,"  returned  he  ;  "  the  boy  is  a  rebel 
and  a  traitor,  and  unless  you  retire,  madam,  I  shall  be  forced  to 
arrest  you  on  a  similar  suspicion." 

"  Suspicion  !  I  atn  a  rebel  and  a  traitor  too,  if  yon  wish. — 
Young  McCartey  is  my  brother,  and  I  don't  leave  this  tent 
until  he  goes  with  me.  Order  his  instant  release,  or,"  here  she 
drew  one  of  the  aforesaid  ivory  handles  out  of  her  bosom  and 
levelled  the  muzzle  of  it  directly  at  him,  "  I  will  put  an  ounce 
of  lead  in  your  brain,  before  you  can  call  a  gingl6  sentry  to  yonr 
relief." 

A  picture  that  ? 

There  stood  the  heroic  girl ;  eyes  flashing  tire,  cheek  glowing 
with  earnest  will,  lips  firmly  set  with  resolution,  and  hand  out- 
stretched with  a  loaded  pistol  ready  to  send  the  contents 
through  the  now  thoroughly  frightened,  itartled,  aghast  soldier, 
who  cowered,  like  blank  paper  before  flames,  under  her  burning 
stare. 

"Quick!"  she  repeated,  "order  his  release,  or  you  die." 
It  was  too  much.     Prince  could  not  stand  it.'  He  bade  her 
lower  her  infernal  weapon  for  God's  sake,  and  the  boy  should 
be  forthwith  liberated. 

"Give  the  order  first,"  she  replied,  unmoved. 
And  the  order  was  given;  the  lad  was  b4-ought  out;  afad 
drawing  his  arm  in  hers,  the  gallant  sister  marched  out  of  the 
place,  with  one  hand  grasping  one  of  his,  and  the  other  hold  of 
her  trusty  ivory-handle.  She  nio\inted  her  horse,  bade  him  get 
up  behind,  and  rode  oflT,  rcadiiug  home  without  accident  before 
midnight. 

Now  that  is  a  lact  stranger  than  fiction,  which  shows  what 


12  THE  -WOStEN  OF  THlf; 

6ort  of  metal  is  in  our  women  of  the  much  abused  and  traduced 
nineteenth  century. — Exchange. 


A  BRAVE  GIRL. 

Tiie  Cohimliue  (Ga.)  "Times"  says  the  following  extract  from 
a  letter  of  a  Savannah  girl  (not  all  unknown  to  fame)  is  too 
G^ood  to  be  immersed  in  the  private  portfolio  fc  which  it  wag 
intended : 

Do  you  believe  that  instead  of  feeling  frightened  I  feel  quite 
brave,  and  I  think  if  I  only  had  the  strength  of  my  lieart  in  ray 
hand,  I  would  make  a  little  here  during  this  war  ?  On  the  day 
that  the  engagement  was  going  on  at  Fort  Royal,  and  every- 
thing iiround  us  was  one  wild  scene  of  confusion,  for  fear  of  an 
attack  on  Savannah,  I  seated  myself  in  the  midst  of  all,  and 
made  a  Confederate  flag  for  the  express  purpose  of  waving  it 
saucily  in  their  faces  when  they  landed.  If  they  come  upon  us 
by  land,  they  will  have  to  pass  this  very  door,  and  in  spite  of 
everything  but  chains  I  intend  to  wave  ray  banner.  I  intend 
to  be  the  first  Savannah  girl  to  dare  them,  and  to  show  them 
the  South  has  not  only  brave  7nen,  but  brave  xoomen  also.  IIow 
it  makes  my  blood  boil  when  I  hear  ot  a  cowardly  act  done  by 
any  one  bearing  the  name  of  ^lan  !  There  were  some  in  Sa- 
vannah who,  during  the  fight  at  Port  Royal,  became  alarmed 
ibr  fear  their  courage  might  be  put  to  the  test,  and  as  they 
would  much  rather  run  than  fight,  and  could  not  do  so  well  if 
they  wore  a  hat  and  boots,  prelerred  the  more  modest  attire  of 
females,  and  took  to  bonnets  and  slippers.  Since  then  I  have 
considered  our  uniform  disgraced  forever,  if  we  do  not  prove 
to  the  world  that  all  who  wear  this  modest  disguise  are  not 
cowards.  To  set  the  rest  of  the  gentler  sex  an  example,  I  have 
volunteered  to  exchange  my  hat  and  slippers  for  the  boots  and 
breeches  of  the  next  man  who  had  rather  run  than  fight,  and 
promise^  too,  that  I  never  will  disgrace  it  by  cowardly  eonduct. 
If  the  men  prove  cowards  at  a  time  like  this,  it  is  high  time  for 
the  women  to  show  what  they  can  do  ;  and  if  they  cannot  de- 
pend on  ihcm  for  protection,  show  them  that  they  have  bravery 
enough  to  meet  them  at  their  own  doors,  if  they  cannot  follow 
them  to  the  battle-field. 

I  think  that  every  woman  should  pr@ve  a  true  Spartan  to  the 
cause  of  libeiiy,  and  when  history  shall  bear  record  of  the  deeds 
of  186],itAvill  reflect  upon  them  no  disgrace,  but  give  them 
credit  lor  follo\^ng  the  example  of  their  mothers  of  '76. 


FIENDISH  OUTRAGE  UPON  WOMEN. 
A   deed   committed  by  Federal   soldiers   has   come  to   the 
knowledge  of  the  writer,.which  is  shocking  beyond  description, 
and  the  bare  mention  of  which  will  produce  a  thrill  of  horror  ic 


SR30ND  A.MEKICAN  REVOLUirON.  13 

every  Southern  breast.  The  information  comes  iu  such  a  shape 
aa  to  leave  no  doubt  iu  regard  to  the  truth  of  the  story. 

A  few  years  ago  a  young  lady  of  Columbia,  Tennessee,  waa 
married  to  a  young  lawyer  of  Ilelemi,  Arkansas.  She  was  edu- 
cated, talented,  witty  and  accomplished  iu  a  high  degree.  We 
speak  from  personal  knowledge  in  making  "this  affirmation. 
They  were  comfortably  settled  in  Ilclen.a,  and  was  blessed  with 
one  or  more  children,  ller  husband  is  iu  the  Southeru  army. 
Five  Federal  soldiers,  including  an  officer,  forcibly  seized  this 
lady,  carried  her  to  a  barn,  and  each  of  them  committed  an  out- 
rage on  her  j)erson.  In  two  or  three  weeks  she  died,  a  victim 
of  their  brutality,  and  of  the  grief  and  mortilioation  produced 
by  their  treatment  of  her. 

Her  husband  is  said  to  be  a  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  some  regi- 
ment. The  writer  knows  him,  and  could  give  his  name,  but 
forbear  to  do  so. 

Soldiers  and  men' of  the  South,  think  of  this  nnparallefl  deed 
ot  crime  and  infamy,  and  let  it  nerve  you  to  fight  for  the  pro- 
tection of  your  wives  and  children,  and  to  drive  back  and 
destroy  the  invaders  of  your  country  and  despoilers  of  vour 
homes. — Knoxxnlle  Ixegister^  Oct.  12^  1SU2. 


UNPARELLELED  ATROCITY  OF  YANKEE  DEMONS. 

The  Shel1)yville  (TenH.)  "■  r>anncr"  says  that  very  recently  a 
foraging  party  of  the  enemy,  escorted  by  a  comuiand  of  cavalry, 
visited  the  premises  of  jMr.  Anthony,  iu  Williamson  county. — 
The  Colonel,  Major  and  other  officers  entered  tlie  house  and 
indulged  in  the  usual  freedom  and  license.  At  the  same  time 
they  permitted  a  number  of  negro  teamsters  to  seize  the 
daughters  of  Mr.  Anthony,  and  ravish  these  unprotected  fe- 
males. Their  mother  besought  the  protection  of  the  officers, 
but  these  brutal  men  only  cursed  her,  as  a  d— d  rebel,  saying 
that  they  understood  that  the  luisbands  of  her  daughters  were 
iu  the  Confederate  service,  and  they  were  being  served  properly 
thus  to  be  outraged  by  a  race  they  had  enslaved. — Jfan/i^  18G3. 

Oh !  God  wo  implore  Thee  to  hear  our  prayer  and  aid  us. 
Let  us  accord  to  the  Yankees  everlasting  reproach  ;  «//<?,  n.ndy- 
in(j  shcone.  Bless  us,  oh  Lord,  to  rcmcnilKcr  them  with  ever 
increasing  hatred  and  contempt.  Guide  us  :\u>\  direct  with  the 
most  deadly  purpose,  lor  their  destruction,  all  our  material  and 
'  appliances  of  war.  Kuablc  us  to  avenge  the  many  outrages  they 
committeil  upon  our  women.  J  fear,  oh  God,  my  prayer,  I 
beseech  thee,  and  bless  our  .armies,  in  every  conflict,  with  a 
two-fold  victory  over  our  demented  foe.  Let  the  carna<r'\  the 
destruction  of  life  and  limb  in  the  ranks  of  our  enemies  ]>e  an 


14  TKE  W0MT5N  OF  THE 

hundred  fold  greater  than  heretofore  knovna.  Would  that  I 
could  wield  a  sword  of  infinite  magnitude,  its  blade  keenly- 
wetted  for  the  vengeance  of  Heaven,  and  my  arm  clothed  with 
the  power  of  Oiuuipotence.  H.  W.  R.  J. 


THE  WOMEN  OF  WINCHESTER,  VIRGINIA. 

The  New  York  "  New  World's  "  correspondent  from  Banks' 
retreating  army,  writing  from  Ilagerstown,  Maryland,  says  that 
while   tlie   Federalists    were   retreating   through    Winchester, 
women  of  that  town  opened  lire  with  ])istols  upon  them  from  the 
windows,    "and  killed   a   great   many."     It   is  very  doubtful 
whether  or  no  this  is  true.     The  women  of  the  town  hardly 
fired  the  guns.     Probably  they  were  too  glad  to  see  the  Yankees 
going  to  dcJay  the  departure  of  even  one  of  them  by  a  wound 
from  3^  pistol  shot.     The  statement  may,  however,  be  taken  as 
an  indication  of  what  the  writer  thinks  of  the  women  of  Win- 
chester,    Their  fidelity  to  their  country  was  so  marked  that  the 
Yankee  )iot  only  expected  no  sympathy  from  thena  in  the  re- 
verse which  hurried  him  from  Winchester,  but  he  even  feared 
they  wouhl  give  him  a  parting  shot  as  he  fled.     So  the  well 
aimed  bullets,  which  are  alleged  to  have  killed  many  of  his  com- 
rades, are  charged  upon  the  ladies !     But  how  can  the  Yankees 
hope  for  a  restoration  of  the  Union  Avith  a  people  whose  women 
even  take  up  arms  against  them  ?     Go  where  they  may  they 
find  the  ladies  firm  in  their  devotion  to  the  South,  giving  the 
invader  no  encouragement,  and  showing  him  no  respect,  until 
they  have  brought  down  upon  themselves  a  full  share  of  that 
Puritan  hate  which  for  so  many  months  h.as  poured   out  the 
vials  of  its  wrath  upon  our  country.     Butler  has  led  on  the 
attack  upon  them,  and  cunningly  devised  the  means  by  which 
the  most  depraved  and  brutal  animosity  is  to  be  appeased.     But 
the  women  of  the  South,  like  the  women  of  Winchester,  will 
continue  true  in  the  face  of  all  the  terrors  the  invader  can  in- 
vent.    If  the  rougher  sex  were  as  univCTsally  faithful  as  the 
women,  this  great  struirgle  would  have  nothinir  to  fear  from 
enemies  at  home.     God  save  the  noble  ladies  of  the  South ! — 
None  of  their  sex,  in  any  age  or  country,  ever  merited  in  a 
higher  degree  the  admiration  of  chivalrous  men  or  their  most 
glorious  deeds  iji  arms  in  their  defence. 


A  SPIRITED  LADY  OF.  NORTH  CAROLINA. 

Under  the  head  of  *'  an  impudent  note  from  a  Southern  lady,"^ 
the  New  Orleans  "Delta"   publishes  the  following, 'showing 
how  a  true  Southern  lady  dared  to  beard  Picayune  Butler  in  his 
stronghold  : 

EmTOKS  Delta — Sir:  Having  been  arrested  a  few  days  since 


8EC0ND  AMERICAN  REVOLPTION.  16 

for  the  display  of  Confederate  cojors  npon  my  person,  in  com- 
memoration of  our  victory  in  Virginia,  and  since  released  upon 
unconditional  terms,  I  now  desire  through  your  columns  to 
contradict  the  rumor  of  an  apology  having  hecix  made  by  me  to 
Butler  for  the  so-called  offence. 

I  take  the  liberty  of  adding  that  I  never  had  an  interview 
with  the  above  person,  nor  to  escape  punishment  had  to  lower 
the  dignity  of  our  Southern  principles,  which  I  then  and  still 
represent.  I  .fin,  sir,  MRS.  E.  A.  COWEN", 

1?62.  189  Canal  street. 


MURDERING  WOMEN. 

We  learn  froin  the  exchanged  prisoners  who  arrived  here  on 
Friday,  from  New  Orleans,  that  on  their  departure  from  that 
city,  large  numbers  of  truc-heartod  Southern  ladies  gathered 
about  them,  Avaving  their  handkerchiefs  and  cheering  for  Jeff. 
Davis  and  the  Southern  Confederacy.  For  this  the  whole  mili- 
tary force  was  called  out  and  ordered  to  charge  upon  the  crowd, 
by  which  four  ladies  were  known  to  have  been  killed. 

Vicksburg  Citizen. 


THE  BAYONET!  TEE  NEEDLE!  THE  PLOW! 

The  press,  the  pulpit  and  the  ])iirse  is  said  to  be  a  powerful 
trio,  but  we  doubt  if  a  stronger  trio  can  be  formed  than  is  sug- 
gested by  the  caption  of  this  article.  The  bayonet,  the  repre- 
sentative of  our  army  in  the  field,  is  all  important  in  the  groat 
work  of  defending  our  altars  and  hearthstones,  but  the  army 
must  be  sustained.  But  for  the  needle,  the  representative  of 
our  glorious,  self  sacrificing  and  patfiotic  women,  how  many 
bayonets  would  have  been  useless?  How  could  the  soldier 
have  stood  the  piercing  blasts  and  numbing  frosts,  without  the 
kind  ministrations  of  women  ?  Her  fame  will  be  co-equal  and 
CO  extensive  with  that  of  the  South — yea,  will  outlive  it.  "WhUe 
the  bayonet  has  plenty  of  food  before  it  in  the  shape  of  a  bar- 
barous and  malignant  foe,  without  ailment  for  the  sturdy  arm 
who  wields  it,  the  glistening  steel  is  useless*  ^It  requires  muscle 
to  sustain  the  bayonet,  and  that  muscle  must  be  kept  up  by  a 
fine  commissariaf.  Here,  then,  the  absolute  importance  of  the 
plow,  the  representative  of  everything  necessary  for  food,  is 
clearly  demonstrated.  In  vain  do  we  send  our  sons  and  brothers 
to  the  field  .and  supply  them  with  clothing  for  the  outer  man,  it 
the  wants  of  the  inner  are  neglected.  The  farmers  of  the  Con- 
federate States  hold  its  independence  and  success  in  their  own 
hands.  Whihj  the  weatlier-bcaten  veteran  is  keeping  back  the 
foe,  and  our  women  are  doing  their  duty,  let  farmers  not  forget 
theirs.  Let  the  qeedle  and  the  plow  then  come  up  to  the  sup- 
port of  the  bayonet. — Atlanta  Intelligencer. 


16  THE  WOMEl^J  OF  THE 

A  PATRIOTIC  J.ADY. 

Lieuienant  B.  S.  Russell,  of  the  16th  Alabama,  was  of  the 
slain  at  Murfrccsboro',  and  fell  in  the  early  part  of  the  action. 
When  stricken  down,  he  felt  the  wound  to  be  mortal,  and  at 
once  gave  his  sword  to  a  comrade,  saying,  "take  this  to  my 
wife,  and  tell  her  I  died  bravely."  The  Colonel  of  his  regiment 
saw  that  the  wish  of  the  patriot  was  complied  with,  and,  in 
reply  to  the  letter,  the  widow,  true,  like  all  other  Southern 
women,  to  the  highest  impulses  of  a  noble  patriotism,  said: 
"  I  mourn  the  death  of  my  husband,  but  my  greatest  regret  is 
that  none  of  his  sons  are  old  enough  to  take  his  place  to  battle 
for  our  liberties.'" 


PATRIOTIC  COH'TSIBUTIOJJ. 

A  merchant  of  Charlotte,  North  Carolina,  who  has  been  in 
the  array,  and  is  now  at  home  on  furlough,  has  placed  in  the 
hands  of  the  editor  of  t\\c  "  Bulletin,"  of  that  place,  live  hun- 
dred dollars  for  the  purchase  of  corn  and  has  corn  for  the  desti- 
tute families  of  soldiers  in  service.  In  a  note  addressed  to  the 
farmers,  to  which  he  appendg  the  signature  "  X,"  he  says  : 

I  have  had  some  little  experience  in  the  camps,  and  know  by 
observation  what  is  the  hardest  part  of  a  soldier's  life.  I  have 
seen  them  open  their  letters  from  home,  and  hnvc  witnessed  the 
tears  trickle  down  their  cheeks  as  they  read  from  home  and 
hear  of  their  suffering  or  destitute  families,  I  teil  you,  if  you 
will  come  forward  and  bring  your  liberal  subscriptions  for  the 
suppoi't  of  their  wives,  you  will  make  them  better  men  and 
better  and  braver  soldiers,  and  our  coimtry  will  be  pafcr ;  our 
money  better;  and,  above  all,  our  conscier;; -s  eisiev. 


YANKEES  OE  HYi:^T AS? 

The  following  graphic  description  of  our.  Yankees  foes  occurs 
in  the  late  speech  of  President  Davis  on  his  return  to  Richmond 
from  his  western  tour : 

"Every  crime  conceivable,  from  the  burning  of  defenceless 
towns  to  the'  stealing  of  silver  forks  and  spoons,  has  marked 
their  career.  In  New  Orleans,  Butler  has  exerted  himself  to 
learn  the  execrations  of  the  civihzed  world,  and  now  returns 
■with  his  dishonors  thick  upon  him  to  receive  the  plaudits  of  the 
only  peop'c  on  earth  who  do  not  blush  to  think  he  wears  the 
human  form.  lie  has  stolen  millions  of  dollars  in  New  Orleans 
from  private  citizens,  although  the  usages  of  war  exempt  private 
property  from  taxation  by  the  enemy.  It  is  in  keeping,  how- 
ever, with  the  character  of  the  people  that  seeks  dominion  over 
you,  claim  to  be  your  masters,  to  try  to  reduce  you  to  subjec- 
tion— give  up  to  a  brutal  soldiery  your  towns  to  sack,  your 


SECOND  AMEEIOAN  REVOLUTION.  17 

homes  to  pillage  and  incite  servile  insurrection.  But  in  the  lat- 
ter point  theyhave  failed  save  in  this  that  they  have  heaped,  if 
possible,  a  deeper  disgrace  upon  themselves.  They  have  come 
to  disturb  your  social  organizations  in  the  plea  that  it  is  a  mili- 
tary necessity.  For  what  are  they  waging  war  ?  They  say  to 
presierve  the  Union.  Can  they  preserve  the  Union  by  destroying 
the  social  existence  of  a  portion  of  the  South  ?  Do  they  hope 
to  reconstruct  the  Union  by  striking  at  everything  that  is  dear 
to  man  ?  By  showing  themselves  so  utterly  disgraced  that  if 
the  question  was  proposed  to  you  whether  you  would  combine 
with  hyenas  or  Yankees,  I  trust  every  Virginian  would  say,  give 
me  the  hyenas.     [Cries  of  '  Good  !  good  !'  and  applause." 


THE  VIRTUES  OF  WOMAN. 

The  fathomless  wells  of  sensibility  and  sentiment  which  'are 
found  in  the  glorious  history  of  woman,  may  well  be  said  to  re- 
semble that  cave  located  by  classic  historians  on  the  summit  of 
Mount  Parnassus,  on  the  brink  of  which  a  temple  was  erected 
and  dedicated  to  Apollo,  and  into  the  aperture  of  which  it  is 
recorded  that  not  even  the  goat  herd  could  not  look  without 
being  seized  with  fits  of  enthusiasm.     It  is  woman  who  has  cos- 
mopolized  virtue,  and  made  it  peculiar  to  no  clime  under  the 
snn,  to  no  race  upon  the  face  of  the  earth,  and  to  no  age  in  the 
calendar  of  time.     From  that  dark  and  dismal  day  on  which 
Mary  passed  from  the  foot  of  the  cross  to  the  door  of  the  se- 
pulchre, the  celestial  music  of  woman's  soothing  voice  has  been 
heard  everywhere,  all  round  the  globe,  amid  the  deepest  gloom 
of  sorrow,  and  the  example  of  her  conduct  has  never  ceased  to 
loom  up  to  illustrate  the  true  and  modest  grandeur  of  moral 
heroism.     This  will  be  found  to  be  her  history  back  to  the  very 
cradle  of  time  ;  and  however  much  patriots  may  lament  the  de- 
generacy of  statesmanship  in  these  days  of  small  men,  to  the 
immortal  honor  of  the  sex  it  must  be  recorded  that  in  her  pas- 
sage through  the  fearful  ordeals  which  have  met  her  footsteps 
everywhere  in  this  revolution,  woman  has  not  only  always  sus- 
tained the  exalted  character  which  from  time  immemorial  has 
been  her  righteous  portion,  but  has  not  unfrequently  rose  above 
the  brilliant  examples  of  tlie  past,  and  outshone  even  herself. 
Wiien  Francisco,  Marquis  of  Pescari,  had  distinguished  himself 
by  his  valor  at  the  battle  of  Pavia,  he  was  thought  of  impor- 
tance enough  to  bride,  and  he  was  offered  the  crown  of  Naples 
to   betray  his   sovereign."    He  wrote  to  his  wife  the  facts,  to 
which  she  sent  him  the  following  reply  :  "  Your  virtue  may  raise 
yon  above  the  glory  of  being  king.     The  sort  of  honor  which 
goes  down  to  our  children  with  real  lustre,  is  derived  from  our 
deeds  and  qualities,  not  from  power  or  titles.     P^or  myself,  I  do 
not  wish  to  be  the  wife  of  a  king,  but  of  a  general,  who  can 
make  himself  superior  to  the  greatest  king,  not  only  by  courage, 


18  THE  "SVOirEN  OF  TUE 

but  by  magnanimity  and  superiority  to  any  less  elevated  motive 
than  duty."     Am  I  challenged  to  produce  an  example  of  virtue, 
born  ot  this  revolution,  which  is  equal  to  this?     I  can  do  it. 
In  1844,  a  young  officer  from  Kentucky  graduated  at  West 
Point  entered  the  United  States  army.    His  patrimony  amounted 
to  a  handsome  fortune,  and  he  soon  thereafter  was  joined  in  the 
holy  bauds  of  wedlock  to  a  beautiful  and  accomplished  heiress 
at  the  North,  whose  dowry  approxitnated  closely  to  a  half  miU 
lion  of  dollars.    When   this   revolution   burst   upon   the   two 
countries,  he  saw  in  a  twinkling  that  if  he  drew  his  sword  under 
the  Confederate  flag  his  own  splendid  patrimony,  and  the  still 
more  splendid   fortune  he   had  acquired  by  his  marriage,  was 
bound  to  be  swept  from  him  and  his  fomily.     It  could  not  but 
occur  to  him  that  he  might  fall  in  the  war,  and  while  his  per- 
ception of  the  right  to  dispose  of  his  own  patrimony  in  the 
maintenance  of  principles  was  clear,  it  was  not  so  easy  a  matter 
to  prepare  to  take  with  him  to  a  soldier's  grave  the  conscious- 
ness that  he  had  beggard  a  widowed  wife  and  her  orphan  chil- 
dren, when  it  was  to  her  he  was  indebted  for  so  much  of  his 
estate.     In  this  dilemma  she   read  his  thoughts,  and  the  lan- 
guage— as  reported  to  me  by  a  lady,  than  whom  no  country 
contains  a  superior,  either  morally  or  intellectually,  who  heard 
it — in  which  she  relieved  him  from  his  delicate  embarrassment, 
furnishes  a  parallel  for  the  reply  of  the  wife  of  Francisco,  and 
settles  the  fact,  that  in  this  Confederacy  we  have  wives  which 
are  an  honor  to  the  human  race.     Here  it  is:  "You  say  that 
your  conscience  tells  you  that  the  South  is  right.     Let  not  the 
sacrifice  then  of  any  portion,  or  all  of  the  fortune  you  acquired 
by  our  marriage  prevent  you  Irom  sustaining  the  true  dignity  ot 
your  character,  either  in  your  estimation  or  in  the  eyes  of  our 
God.     Our  fortune  is  ample,  but  the-  e  is  no  fortune  in  the  world 
equal  in  value  to  a  conscientious  husband.     Moreover,  I,  too, 
believe  the  South  is  right,  and  therefore,  albeit  the  North  get 
our  estate,  let  the  South  have  your  sword.     The  pleasure  that 
we  will  derive  from  doing  right,  and  the  fame  that  you  will 
acquire  by  the  sacrifices  that  you  will  make  and  the  services  you 
will  render  to  the  Confederate  cause,  will  bo  worth  more  to  us 
while  we  live,  and  to  our  children  hereafter,  than  any  paltry 
fortune  we  could  possess  or  they  could  from  us  inherit,  when 
we  are  gone. 

That  husband  instantly  espoused  our  cause.  At  the  fall  of 
Fort  Doneison  he  was  among  the  prisoners  wh'^  fell  into  the 
h mds  of  the  enemy.  His  heroic  and  noble  wife  applied  to  Gen. 
Sherman,  at  Cairo,  to  ascertain  the  whereabouts  of  her  husband 
and  for  permission  to  visit  him.  The  requests  were  respectively 
met  with  a  categorical  and  brutal  relusal,  but  she  was  informed, 
while  no  information  could  be  given  her  of  where  her  husband 
was,  still  if  she  desired  to  visit  her  friends  at  the  North  she 
would  be  permitted  to  do  so.     "  Sir,"  said  she,  "  the  only  friend 


SK(X)NT)  AMERICAN  EEVOLUTION.  19 

T  have  at  the  North  whom  I  ever  wish  to  see  iigain  is  my  hus- 
banr],  Gen.  B.,  and  if  I  cannot  be  permitted  to  see  him  1  have 
no  further  request  to  make." 

Who  can  compute  tlie  vahie  of  such  incidents  in  the  instruc- 
tion they  furnish  to  the  world,  of  who  we  as  a  people  are,  and 
how  is  that  instruction  to  be  imparted  if  from  a  false  sense  of 
delicacy  we  refuse  to  allow  the  light  of  such  incidents  to  shine  ! 

Advertiser  cb  Ilcyister. 


WHAT  CAN  WOMAN  DO? 

BY  A.  V.  S. 

1  see  the  satirical  smile  restins^  upon  your  featu'"es,  Sir  Cynic, 
as  you  slowly  unfold  the  ])aper  and  see  the  commencement 
of  this  sketch.  Don't  think  I  am  about  to  commence  a  labored 
discussi')n  upon  womrai's  rlt/hts^  and  thereby  bore  you  to  death 
with  philosophical  nonsensf.  Nothiuir  of  the  kind,  I  assure 
you,  is  my  intention  ;  for  woman,  in  the  stern  cliaracter  of  lec- 
turer \ipoii  the  rostrum  and  statue,  we  will  leave  to  be  personated 
by  the  strong-minded  woman  of  the  North,  and  turn  our  eyes 
.to  a  more  extendeil  held  of  labor  in  our  own  Sunny  Sovth. 

Neither  do  I  wish  to  present  her  in  the  light  of  a  ball-room 
belle — a  mere  parlor  ornament — whose  highest  ambition  is  to 
expend  large  sums  annually  in  decorating  her  person  and  feed- 
ing her  insatiate  vanity;  playing  occasionally  a  little  miserable 
music;  smattering  a  good  deal  of  t)dions  French, tand  flirting 
desperately  with  every  nvoustached  foreigner  who  chances  to 
fall  into  her  clutches. 

From  both  of  these  pictures  we  turn,  in  absolute  disgust,  to 
woman's  true,  oi\ly  proper  sphere,  as  the  brighteiier  of  man's 
existence  ;  the  one  star,  whose  radiance  far  transcends  all  other 
eartldy  objects.  The  iiitluerice  a  pure-hearted  woman  exerts 
over  the  world  at  large,  can  nevtr  be  adeiiuately  known.  Littie 
deeds  of  kindness,  soft  words  of  friendshi])  whis'iered  into  the 
car  of  souie  lonely, forlorn  one,  may  be  the  means  of  laising  iiis 
spirits  from  the  depths  of  despondency,  giving  an  impetus  to 
liis  nobler,  higher  powers,  and  causing  him  to  go  forth  into  the 
great  battle  of  life  with  renewed  energy. 

What  more  beautiful  than  to  see  her,  ntdiko  the  gay  devotee 
of  lashion,  turning  her  atteniion  from  the  allurements  of  plea- 
sure to  that  home  which  she  can  so  well  beautify  and  adorn.  It 
is  her  world,  in  whicli  she  is  monarch  of  all  she  surveys.  What 
an  exalti'*!  and  dignitied  p(»siti()n?  The  id«>I  of  every  heart, 
slie  rules  by  the  k'indness  and  love  which,  like  incense,  rises  all 
around  her  ha])py  pathway.  When  tlie  bright  beams  of  pj-os- 
piirity's  sun  are  obscured,  and  poverty's  dai  k  cloud  enshrouds 
man's  horizon,  then  ii  is  th;it  woman's  lovo  appears  as  a  be.-icou 
li^ht,  shedding  its  brilliant  rays  iar  o'er  life's  dreary  water, 


20  THE   WOMEN  OF  THE 

brightening  every  object,  tmtil  nothing  seems  too  difficult  for 
^e'^renewed  spirit ;  labor  rather  a  pleasure. 

Every  other  friend  may  forsake,  and  turn  away,  in  the  sad 
hour  of  affliction ;  bnt  'tis  then  with  woman  that  her  nature,, 
like  the  ivy  around  the  sturdy  oak,  entwines  more  closely,  and. 
strives  more  faithfully  to  bind  up  the  bleeding  tendrils  of  the 
weary  heart  of  father,  brother  or  husband.  No  hand  like  her's 
can  lift,  as  with  magic,  the  shade  of  care  from  a  loved  one's 
brow,  can  speak  those  sweet  words  of  comfort  so  grateful  to  the 
bowed  spirit,  can  lead,  by  cheerful  conversation,  the  thoughts 
away  from  disagreeable  subjects,  and  make  him  forget  that 
aught  save  truth,  purity  and  love  ever  mingles  with  our  lot  on 

earth. 

She  could  be  dispensed  with  everywhere  better  than  in  a  sick 
roora.  There  is  woman's  particular  forte  more  plainly  visible 
than  anywhere  else.  The  lords  of  creation  may  boast  extrava- 
gantly of  their  independence,  but  Avhen  the  heavy  hand  of 
disease  is  laid  upon  their  frames,  and  the  strong  man  becomes  as 
a  little  child  in  weakness,  then  he  must  acknowledge  his  reliance 
uDon  her  care.  Who  is  there  besides  that  can  so  well  bathe  the 
fevered  brow,  raise  the  cooling  draught  to  the  parched  lips,  and 
bestow  all  of  those  little  nameless  attentions  which  would  only 
be  thought  of  by  a  woman  ?  Night  after  night  will  she  sit,  a 
ione  watcher,  by  the  couch  of  pain,  bearing  the  fretful  exclama- 
tions of  man's  turbulent  nature  with  patience,  striving,  as  best 
she  can,  to  mitigate  his  sufferings  and  allowing  herself,  some- 
times, no  rest, for  her  wearied  system.  Self  is  entirely  forgotten 
for  the  time,  and  the  one  great  thought  of  doing  good  for  the 
ioved  suffering  one  seems  to  absorb  her  every  faculty. 

Well  indeed  has  the  poet  said  : 

"  O,  woman  !  m  our  hours  of  ease, 
Fantastic,  coy  awd  bard  to  please, 
And  variable  as  the  shade 
By  the  light  quivering  aspen  made: 
When  pain  aijd  anguish  wring  the  brow, 
A  ministering  angel  thou." 

How  sublime  is  woman  in  the  character  of  mother.  'Tis 
her's  to  lead  the  infant  minds  of  those  committed  to  her  care  to^ 
noble  thoughts  of  existence ;  and  upon  the  unwritten  tablets  of 
iheir  young  hearts,  inscribed,  Avith  indelible  distinctness,  those 
lessons  which,  in  after  years,  never  can  be  forgotten.  The 
father  of  his  country,  our  own  beloved  Washington,  owed  his 
Success,  in  life,  to  *that  mother  whose  precepts  he  treasured 
within  his  heart,  and  which  he  never  failed  to  respect  even  when 
he  was  at  the  pinacleof  glory  and  idolized  by  a  grateful  people. 
Throughout  all  ages  so  powerful  has  been  the  influence  of  a 
mother  upon  the  lives  of  their  sons,  that  in  reading  the  histories 
of  great  men,  one  never  fails  to  be  struck  with  this  peculiar 

ower.     It  is  the  talisman  which  causes  them,  when  everything 


SECOifD  AMEEKASr  KETOLCTION.  21. 

else  fails  to  move,  to  repent  of  their  transgressions  and  abandon 
the  paths  of  vice  forever.  Even  thongh  years  may  have  passed 
since  that  loved  voice  was  hushed  in  death,  yet  never  will  con- 
science fail  to  upbraid  when  her  teachings  are  about  to  be  dis- 
obeyed. When  the  path  of  glory  invites,  at  her  warning  voice 
that  slippery  course  is  abandoned,  and  the  couquerer  is  again  a 
■child.  Coriolanus,  enraged  at  the  treatment  he  had  received  at 
the  hands  oi"  his  countrymen,  after  joining  his  enemies,  marched 
upon  the  city  of  Rome.  All  would  have  been  lost — the  beauti- 
ful seven-hilled  city  would  have  been  razed  to  the  ground — but 
his  mother,  with  a  banil  of  maidens,  went  out  to  Lim  and  en- 
treated his  forbearance.  The  strong  man  burst  into  tears,  and 
exclaimed:  ^'Mother,  yon  have  sailed  Home,  but  lost  your 
sonf^ — rilnstrated  yhics,  February^  1868. 


** GOD'S  LAST,   BEST  GIFT  TO   MAN,"    WOMAN  A   MINIS- 
TERING ANGEL. 

It  is  always  cheering  and  encouraging  to  the  patriot  soldier 
to  receive  the  approving  smiles  of  lovely  woman,  how  much  so, 
when  to  these  are  added  delicate  attentions,  profuse  hospitality 
and  angelic  liberality.  Such  was  the  good  fortune  of  the  Ma- 
rion liijfes,  when  ordered  to  Rocky  Point,  North  Carolina.  The 
attentions  then  and  there  received  from  "  God's  lost,  best  gift 
to  man,"  are  indelibly  engraved  upon  the  tablets  of  our  memo- 
ries and  hearts,  and  will  always  be  most  fondly  cherished.  The 
warm  and  friendly  greeting,  the  pressing,  ready  welcome,  the- 
delightlul  hours,  spent  in  j-ocial  intercourse,  all  combined  to 
render  our  sojourn  there,  not  only  pleasant  and  happy,  but  sa- 
tisfied us  that  indeed  we  were  among  "ministering  angels." 

New  Year's  day,  1863,  at  Rocky  Point,  will  always  be  grate- 
lully  commemorated  by  us  as  a  corps,  and  fond  memory  will 
oftimes  bring  to  mind  the  actors  of  that  day.  The  Rev.  Mr.  II., 
the  widow  M.,  the  fiscinating  Mrs.  11.  and  her  lovely  sister, 
Mrs.  C,  as  also  the  dear  little  spirits,  Misses  S.allie  11.  and  Lizzie 
C,  and  we  cannot  omit  our  Ixachelor  friend,  Mr.  B. — all  were 
intent  upon  making  us  happy  and  at  iiomc ;  what  associations 
cluster  in  that  word,  sweet,  sweet  home.  "We  wish  these  kind 
friends  continued  happiness  and  prosperity,  and  indulge  the 
sincere  hope  that  their  quiet  and  happy  homes  may  be  undis- 
turbed by  the  desecrating  Abolitionists,  but  should  he  threaten 
them,  we  would  accept  with  proud  and  happy  distinction  the 
privilege  of  being  the  foremost  to  meet  and  drive  olf,  at  any 
rsacritice,  the  enemy  of  our  country  and  happiness. 

MARION  RIFLES. 


22  THE  AVOifEN  OF  TIIK 

BEAUTIFUL    EULCGIUM    AND    TRIBUTE    10    WOMAN- 
WOMAN'S  HEROifM. 

*  *  *  The  ;ittitiitle  of  woman  is  subliino.  Bearing  all  the 
Racriiiccs/)f  wliicli  I  have  just  spoken,  she  is  moreover  called 
upon  to  puffer  in  her  atteclioiis,  to  be  wounded  and  smitten 
where  slie  tV-els  deepest  and  most  eiiduringly.  ^fan  li^oes  to  the 
battle-fitld,  but  woman  serids  him  there,  even  though  her  iieart- 
strings  tremble  while  she  givt's  ilje  farewell  kiss  and  the  farewell 
blessing.  yV.in  is  sui)p')rit'd  by  the  necessity  of  movement,  by 
the  excitement  of  action,  by  tlie  hope  of  honor,  by  the  gloiy  of 
conquest.  Woman  lemains  at  home  to  suffer,  to  bear  the  cruel 
torture  of  suspense,  to  tremble  when  the  battle  has  been  fought, 
and  tiie  news  of  the  slaughter  is  fl  shing  over  the  electric  Avire, 
to  know  that  defeat  will  cover  her  with  dishonor  and  her  little 
ones  with  ruin,  to  learn  that  the  husband  she  doated  upon,  the 
son  whom  she  cherished  in  her  bosom,  and  upon  whoui  she 
never  let  the  win^  blow  too  rudely,  the  brother  with  whom  she 
pported  through  all  her  iiappy  days  of  childhood,  the  lover  to 
whom  her  early  vows  were  pliglited,  has  died  uj^on  somedi.-taut 
battle-field,  and  lies  there  a  mangled  corpse,  unknown  and  un- 
cared  for,  never  to  be  seen  again,  even  in  death!  Oh!  those 
fearful  lists  of  the  wounded  and  the  dead !  How  carelessly  we 
pass  them  ovtr,  unless  our  own  loved  ones  happen  to  be  linked 
with  them  in  military  association,  and  yet  each  name  in  that  roll 
of  slaughter  carries  a  fatal  pang  to  some  woman's  heart — some 
noble  devoted  woman's  heart.  But  she  bears  it  all,  and  bows 
submissively  to  the  stroke.  lie  died  for  the  cause.  lie  perished 
for  his  country.  I  wouhl  not  have  it  otherwise,  but  I  should 
like  to  have  given  the  dying  boy  my  blessing,  the  expiring  hus- 
band my  last  kiss  of  affection,  the  bleeding  lover  the  comfort  of" 
knowing  that  I  kneeled  beside  him.        ***** 

Extract  J^rorn  a  sertnon  delivered  in  ChrisCs  Church,  /Savan- 
nah,  Georgia,  December,  18G2. 


THE  SOCIETY  OF  WOMAN. 

No  society  is  m(jre  profitable,  because  none  more  refining  and 
provocative  of  viitue,  than  that  of  refined  and  sensible  women. 
God  enshrined  peculiar  goodness  in  the  form  of  women,  that 
her  beauty- might  win,  her  gentle  voice  invite,  and  the  desire  of 
her  iavor  persuade  men's  sterner  souls  to  leave  the  paths  of  sin- 
ful strife  for  the  ways  of  pleasantness  and  peace.  But  when 
woman  falls  from  her  blest  eminence,  and  sinks  the  guardiaix 
and  the  cherisher  ot  pure  and  rational  enjoyments  into  the  vain 
coquette,  and  flattered  idolater  of  idle  fashion,  she  is  unworthy 
of  an  honorable  man's  love,  or  a  sensible  man's  admiration. — 
Beauty  is  then  but,  at  best. 


Dear  deceit." 


A  pretty  play  tiling, 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLIfnON.  23 

We  honor  the  chivalrous  deference  which  is  paid  in  our  land 
to  woman.  It  proves  that  our  men  know  how  to  respect  virtue 
and  puie  aflection,  and  that  our  women  are  worthy  of  such  re- 
spect. Yet  woman  should  be  something  more  than  mere 
woman  to  win  us  to  their  society.  To  be  our  companions,  they 
should  be  litted  to  be  our  friends  ;  to  rule  our  hearts,  they 
should  be  deserving  the  approbation  of  our  minds.  There  are 
many  such,  and  that  there  are  not  more,  is  rather  the  fault  of 
our  sex  than  their  own  ;  and  despite  all  the  uninanly  scandals 
that  have  been  thrown  upon  them  in  prose  or  verse,  they  would 
rather  share  in  the  rational  conversation  of  men  of  sense  than 
listen  to  the  silly  compliments  of  fools  ;  and  a  man  dishonors 
them,  as  well  as  disgraces  him s  If,  when  he  seeks  their  circle  for 
idle  pastime,  and  not  for  the  improvement  of  his  mind  and  the 
elevation  of  his  heart.  • 


TO  ALL  SOUTHERN  LADIES. 

Earnest  devotion  of  the  ladies  of  the  South.  Did  but  our 
men  manifest  the  same  ardor  our  final  success  would  not  be 
withheld  much  longer. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adopted  at  a  leraaie  prayer 
meeting  at  Carrolton,  Alabama,  and  th*:iir  publication  was  re- 
quested : 

WuKRKAS,  Almighty  God,  in  his  infinite  wisdom,  has  permit- 
ted a  cruel,  unholy  and  dcstjuctive  war  to  come  upon  us  as  a 
scourge  for  our  sinfulness  and  wanderings  Irom  Him  ;  and  be- 
lieving that  the  Omnipotent  Arm  alone  can  .save  us  from  the 
impending  dangers  ;  therefore,  the  ladies  of  Carrolton,  at  their 
female  prayer  meeting,  resolved  that  they  would  set  apart  a  half 
hour  the  first  Monday  in  every  month,  for  special  prayer  for 
peace^  and  ask  every  lady  throughout  the  South  to  engage  with 
us.  We  do  not  make  this  recjuest  V)ecause  Ave  think  Christians 
are  not  praying;  for  we  believe  there  has  never  been  a  time 
when  more  earnest  prayers  were  offered  up  for  the  same  pur- 
]iosc',  .and  never  has  there  been  so  great  a  necessity  for  impor- 
tunate prayer  as  now.  We  believe  our  people  are  becoming 
1  n  nbled.  and  it  is  the  best  indication  of  peace  we  have  had,  but 
we  are  not  humble  enough  yet.  God  is  a  pra,yer-hearing  and  a 
pr.ayer-ansvi  ering  God.  Then  let  every  woman's  heart  be  united 
in  jirayer.  Let  eacli  wife,  mother  Jina  sister  retire  at  sunset  (on 
the  above  mentioned  day,)  and  beseech  thu  Lord  to  save  us 
from  our  cruel  enemies,  to  w.atch  over,  preserve  and  restore  to 
us  our  beloved  ones  ;  and  grant  us  a  speedy  and  honorable  peace. 
We  consider  prayer  the  most  powerful  of  alt  weapons. 

The  very  idea  of  so  many  being  engaged  in  jirayer  the  same 
hour  i»  impressive  of  itself;  we  think  it  would  encourage  many 


24  THE  WOMEN  OF  THB 

a  poor  soldier  to  look  forward  with  pleasing  hopes  for  peace  axid 
a  safe  return  to  his  beloved  ones. 

All  papers  favorable  to  this  proposition  will  please  copy, 

A  LADY. 


The  ladies,  God  bless  them,  are  the  true  patriots  in  this  strug- 
gle; for  while  the  pseudo  lords  of  creation  are  gambling  in  the 
prime  necessaries  of  life,  causing  fear  and  trembling  to  seize 
even  the  most  sanguine  well-wisher  of  the  Southern  cause,  the 
fair  sex,  as  ministering  angels,  are  pouring  oil  on  the  troubled 
waters,  and  doing  their  utmost  in  assistance  to  bring  about  an 
hororable  peace,  by  rendering  the  soldier  comfortable,  and 
thereby  nerving  his  arm,  so  that  he  may  be  able  to  withstand 
the  rigors  of  the  winter  and  successfully  contend  against  fearful 
odds  on  the  battle-fi.eld. 


WHY  WOT  IMPORT  PROVISIONS? 

Mr..  Editor;  I  often  see  and  hear  the  remark  made,  that  "wo 
have  but  one  thing  to  fear  in  our  present  struggle,  but  one  thing 
that  will  conquer,  ruin  us,  which  is  the  foilureof  the  grain  crop." 
All  acknowledge  that  to  be  an  event  of  such  moment,  that  its 
occurrence  would  most  inevitably  ruin  us.  Stil!,  I  see  no  effort 
making  to  meet  such  a  startlingly  frightful  calamity ;  but  'tis 
left  to  time  to  develope  the  awful  uncertainty  of  our  salvation 
or  our  destruction.  I  may  be  asked  what  plan  have  I  to  offer 
that  will  give  us  a  certainty  over  the  future.  I  cannot  say  I 
liave  apy  such  suggestion  to  make.  But  one  thing  appears 
strange  to  me.  In  looking  over  the  catalogues  of  the  cargoes 
of  those  vessels  which  svicceed  in  eluding  the  blockaders,  they 
arc  assorted,  to  be  sure,  but  in  vain  does  the  patriot  search  for 
the  staff  of  life — breadstuffs.  We  find  silk,  merino,  broad  cloth, 
hoop  skirts,  alpaca,  tea,  &c.,  etc.,  <tc.,  each  and  every  one  of 
which  articles  we  can  do  without.  Our  independence  can  be 
achieved,  I  may  say,  better  without  than  with  them,  as  well  as 
numerous  other  articles  which  fill  the  aforesaid  catalogues. 

Can  no  inducement  be  offered  to  men  engaged  in  this  business 
tempting  enough  to  cause  them  to  invest  their  money  in.  the 
great  necessaries  of  life  ?  I  would  say,  let  a  premium  be  offered 
by  our  Government  for  every  barrel  of  Hour  and  every  pound 
of  bacon,  and,  if  found  advisable  and  practicable,  levy  a  heavy 
revenue  upon  the  unnecessaries,  which  are  now  purchased  by 
the  fashionable  and  luxury  lovers  of  our  land  at  enormous  prices. 
Aye,  yes,  let  the  inducement  be  such  that  no  vessel  would  b 
freighted  for  our  shores  with  aught  but  bread,  meat,  medicine 
and  arniy  stores.  Flood  our  land,  if  possible,  with  the  afore- 
said articles,  but,  above  all,  bread,  and  we  are  saved.     Yes,  I 


SECOND  AMEBUCAN  BEVOLDTION.  25 

say  above  aJl  broad,  for  it' is  even  more  necessary  to  our  success 
than  ammunition,  I  may  be  told  but  a  small  quantity  can  reach 
us  in  this  way.  Well,  even  if  small,  it  would  be  that  much 
help  ;  but  I  feel  confident  that  much  would  reach  us.  Take,  for 
instaiicc,  the  amount  which  one  firm  aJone,  that  of  Fraser  &  Co., 
of  Charleston,  has  realized  Irom  this  business — ten  millions, 
(eight  millions  of  which  have  been  invested  in  Confederate: 
bonds — all  honor  to  them),  and  then  tell  me  the  quantity  would 
be  small.  Not  to  speak  of  what  others  have  made  by  similar 
investments,  which,  if  taken  into  account,  would  swell  these 
figures  to  an  almost  fabulous  amount,  an  amotmt  which,  even  at 
the  high  price  of  flour  and  meat  now,  would  i)nrchase  a  suffi- 
ciency to  warrant  an  escape  from  famine,  should  our  crops  fail — 
a  contingency  so  awful,  that  I  tremble  as  I  contemplate  it.  I 
almost  idolize  my  country,  and  this  is  the  only  jfjiology  I  have  to 
offer  for  obtruding  this  suggestion  upon  the  public. 

A  DAUGHTER  OF  THE  SOUTH. 


ATROCITIES  OF  THE  FEDERALS 

A  correspondent  of  the  Chicago  "Times"  writing  from 
Memphis,  gives  the  following  account  of  the  cold  blooded  and 
unprovoked  murder  of  a  Mr.  C.  W.  Alexander: 

]3ut,  to  satisfy  you  that  I  am  not  fabricating,  imposing  upon 
your  readers,  let  me  narrate,  in  a  few  words,  three  occurrences 
which  have  taken  place  within  the  last  week  in  this  city.  A 
host  of  witnesses  stand  ready  to  corroborate  what  I  shall  say. 
The  first  case  was  that  of  a  gentleman  by  the  name  of  C.  W. 
Alexander.  He  was  going  to  his  residence  in  the  suburbs  of 
the  city,  when  a  cavalry  soldier  rode  up  to  him.  The  first  word 
uttered  came  from  the  soldier.  "  You  are  a  deserter,"  he  said. 
"  You  are  mistaken,"  replied  Mr.  A.,  "  I  am  a  citizen  of  this 
place,  and  if  you  will  but  stej)  with  me  to  the  top  of  the  hill,  I 
will  (satisfy  you  by  the  pickets  there,  who  know  me  well,  that  I 
live  here,  for  they  see  me  every  day."  "  Well,  you  are  a  damned 
Secessionist,  then,"  said  the  soldier.  "That  is  a  question  I  do 
not  propose  to  discuss  here,"  was  the  re])ly  ;  and  Mr.  Alexander, 
being  ordered  to  go  ahead,  started.  He  had  gone  but  a  few 
steps,  when  the  soldier  drew  a  pistol  and  shot  him  in  the  back, 
the  ball  passing  entirely  through  the  body.  He  sank  down  im- 
mediately, was  soon  taken  up  by  friends  and  carried  home, 
where  he  lingered  about  three  days  before  he  died. 

Scarcely  two  weeks  elapse  ere  the  brother  of  the  deceased  is 
assassinated  by  one  of  Lineoln's  fiendish  hirelings.  The  Jackson 
"  Appeal,"  of  the  1 7th,  h.as  the  following  : 

The  Memphis  "Argus  "  has  information  that  3Ir.  J.  M.  Alex- 
ander, formerly  of  the  firm  of  Foster  &  Alexander,  was  killed 
at  Fulton,  Tennessee,  a  few  <lays  a^^o,  by  a  soldier.  No  par- 
ticulars of  the  afiLiir  have   reached  Alempbls.     Mr.   Alexander 


26  TIIK  WOMEN  OF  THE 

■was  a  brother  of  Mr.  C.  W,  Alexander,  who  was  shot  in  the 
northern  portion  of 'he  city  a  few  weeks  ago. 

Tiie  correspondent  of  the  Chicago  "Times,"  after  narrating 
the  iirst  murder,  continues: 

Somewhere  about  tliesame  time,  some  soldiers  noticed  a  boy, 
wlio  wa^  not  observing  tlieni.  One  of  them,  drawing  his  revolver, 
remarked  that  he  believed  he  could  hit  the  boy,  and,  suitin.? 
the  action  to  the  word,  fired,  sliooting  hini  through  the  hip.  It 
is  thought  the  wound  will  terminate  mortally. 


YANKEE  BRUTALITY. 

The  Richmond  "Dispatch"  gives  the  following  account  of 
.Yankee  brutality  in  Norfolk: 

We  liave  been  shown  a  private  letter  from  a  lady,  in  Norfolk, 
giving  an  account  of  the  arrest  and  search  of  three  ladies  of 
that  city  by  the  Federal  authorities.  Tlie  writer  of  the  letter 
being  one  of  the  victims  to  this  piece  of  Yankee  malignity,  re- 
hearses her  treatment  with  an  indignation  characteristic  of 
insulted  womanly  virtue.  The  Provost  Marshal,  it  seems, 
shirked  the  responsibility  of  the  contemptible  proceeding,  and 
left  the  niattei  in  the  hands  of  a  set  of  unprincipled  clerks,  who 
secured  the  services  of  a  woman  as  bankrupt  in  morals  as  them- 
selves to  superintend  the  search.  Against  only  one  of  these 
ladies  was  there  any  charge,  and  she  was  arrested  upon  infor- 
mation iurnished  to  the  19th  Wisconsin  regiment  by  a  negro 
that  she  intended  to  pass  the  lines  with  letters  for  parties  in  the 
Confederate  army.  When  she  was  taken  before  the  Provost 
Marshal  the  other  two  ladies  went  to  see  her,  when  all  three 
were  subjected  so  a  rigid  examination  in  a  room  adjoining  the 
Marshal's  office. 


AN  APPEAL  FROM  WOMIN. 

A  call  has  been  made  upon  a'l  the  able-bodied  men  to  con.e  at 
once  to  the  rescue  of  our  country,  and  some  one  has  asked  that 
we,  the  women,  use  our  influence  in  urging  forward  to  duty 
those  who  have  not  been  prompt  to  respond  to  the  call. 

We  have  tried  to  do  our  duty  in  this  great  struggle  for  liberty. 
In  every  way  except  by  personal  appeals  ;  by  our  labor  and 
conduct  throughotit,  we  have  exhorted,  urged  and  encouraj^ed 
our  natural  protecto!  s,  to  shield  us  from  subjugation  by  our 
tyrannical  foes;  and  with  loving  hearts,  willing  hands  and  tear- 
ful eyes,  we  have  labored  night  and  day  to  prepaie  food, 
clothing,  and  everything  we  could  to  relieve  our  suffering  sol- 
diers, and  otherwise  aid  our  cause.  Physical'y,  we  are  weak 
and  timid  ;  and  though  the  loved  ones  we  have  sent  into  the 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  27 

service  are  dear  to  us  as  our  heart's  blood,  their  honor  is  dearer 
than  life  itself. 

All  know  how  intensely  women  admire  courage  in  men.  It 
is  impossible  for  us  to  respect  a  coward,  and  every  true  womnn 
who  has  husband,  latlier,  brother  or  lover — though  he  be  the 
sun  of  her  existoiici^ — the  one  star  of  her  hope,  had  rather  see 
him  prostrate  before  her  with  death's  signet  on  his  noble  brow 
that  has  never  been  branded  by  cowardice  or  dishonor,  than 
have  him  forfeit  his  good  name  and  di«graco  his  manhood,  by 
refusing  to  do  his  duly  to  his  country.  "Women  would  have 
men  love  God  first,  their  country  next,  and  then  herself. 

"We  know  the  longer  the  war  lasts  the  more  homes  will  be 
desolated  ;  the  more  precious  lives  will  be  lost  by  disease  and 
battle;  and  if  the  war  continues  long,  all  will  be  compelled  to 
go  into  the  service  and  do  their  duty;  and  wo  prefer  that  all 
Khould  go  now — go  without  further  delay,  and  with  one  efiectual 
blow,  and  at  once,  this  cruel  war,  which  is  desolating  our 
country  and  rending  our  hearts.  If  we  must  be  left  alone  and 
unprotected  at  our  liomes,  be  it  so.  If  we  sufler  it  will  be  in  a 
good  cause,  and  God  and  His  Holy  Angels  will  take  care  of 
those  who  trust  in  Iliju. 

If  lel't  to  the  women  of  the  South  to  decide,  we  say,  if  it  be 
necessary,  let  all  go  at  once.  The  sooner  the  war  is  ended,  the 
sooner  will  our  sufterings  be  over;  we,  therefore,  implore  every 
man,  Avho  is  able  to  bear  arms,  to  go  forth  and  wield  tiiem  in 
our  defence.  You  are  politically,  as  well  as  naturally,  our  pro- 
tectors. We  look  to  you ;  we  cling  to  you  as  our  earthly 
hope — our  only  dependence.  You  know  that  your  lives  are 
dejix  to  us.  Oh  I  so  dear  !  But  your  lives  cease  to  be  dear  to 
us,  when  you  i'ail  to  provide  us  a  country  that  we  can  be  proud 
of,  and  when  we  can  no  longer  reverence  your  honor,  your 
patriotism  and  your  courage.  This  patriotism,  honor  and  cour- 
age, we  look  to  you  to  preserve  untarnished,  and  to.  give  us  a 
country  where  freedom  shall  dwell,  virtue  be  respected,  and 
which  Mill  be  exalted  and  honored  among  the  nations  of  the 
earth.  Let  us  have  these,  or  let  us  share  with  you  your  honored 
graves  where  the  bones  «'f  heroes  repose.  Better  death  than 
dishonor.  Better  the  extinction  of  a  jiroud  race  of  freemen, 
than  have  a  country  from  which  liberty  has  taken  its  llight  for- 
ever !  Some  good  angel  has  whispered  it  into  our  hearts  that 
Southern  men  can  never  be  conquered  by  any  i<)C  if  they  wil\ 
only  be  true  to  themselves  and  the  proud  national  birthright 
which  we  jiossess;  but  it  they  ]>rove  themselves  unworthy  this 
princely  lurilage  of  freemen,  liberty  will  bow  its  regal  head 
with  shame  and  depart  from  us  forever. 

Then,  resi)ond  to  o\ir  country's  call,  men  of  '. l)e  South.  It  is 
woman  that  pleads  and  asks  you  to  come  to  her  rescue.  Each 
one  of  you  is  the  star — the  centre  of  hope — of  some  pure  wo- 


28  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

man's  heart;  but  where  will  be  her  joy,  if  she  see  that  star  set 
forever  in  infamy  and  disgrace,  either  personal  or  national. 

It  is  not  brave,  just  and  honorable,  for  some  to  endure  all  the 
sufterings,  hardships,  toils  and  death,  which  are  the  last  of  a 
soldier,  in  securing  our  independence  for  the  enjoyment  of 
others  who  have  avoided  the  post  of  honor  and  danger,  and 
have  not  contributed  their  part  in  this  great  struggle. 

Come  then,  from  the  halls  of  learning.  Come  from  the  pulpit, 
the  rostrum,  the  tripod,  the  counting-house,  the  physicians' 
office,  ccme  from  the  fields,  mountains  and  vales.  Let  the  great 
heart  of  the  South,  like  tlie  pulsations  of  a  convulsed  world, 
throb  to  the  music-chimes  of  treedom's  pealing  strains,  and  every 
brave  man  respond  to  the  clarion  call  which  summons  freemen 
to  arms.  Let  every  strong  arm  strike  a  simultaneous  blow  for 
liberty  and  independence.     Then,  indeed,  w^  shall  be  free. 

No  matter  what  the  position  or  rank  you  fill.  Every  true 
woman  has  more  respect  and  admiration  for  the  poor  private  in 
rags  and  bleeding  feet,  if  he  be  a  true,  unselfish  patriot,  than  for 
all  the  tinsel  and  gilded  greatness  of  a  laggard  or  coward. 

We  hope  all  will  appreciate  the  sacrifices  which  we  make  in 
giving  up  the  objects  of  our  love;  but  let  all  understand  that 
woman  can  never  counsel  dishonor.  We  will  cheerfully  endure 
the  privations  and  sufterings  that  may  befall  us.  We  will  still 
try  to  do  our  duty ;  labor  for,  assist,  relieve  and  encourage  our 
brave  defenders ;  and  though  our  hearts  are  torn ;  though  we 
are  bereft  of  our  dearest  ones,  we  Avill  never  say  "  hold !  it  is 
enough  ! "  till  the  last  vile  foe  shall  bite  the  dust,  or  is  driven 
from  our  soil,  and  our  countrv  )>roudly  takes  her  place  among 
the  nations  of  the  earth.  '  WOMEN  OF  THE  SOUTH. 


BITTER  FEMALE  SECESSIONISTS. 

We  get  the  following  good  anecdote  from  the  Washington 
correspondence  of  a  New  York  paper : 

Four  young  gentlemen,  who  have  been  residing  in  Alexandria 
for  some  months,  a  few  days  ago  engaged  apartments  of  a  highly 
respectable  lady  in  Prince  street,  with  her  two  daughters,  aged 
respectively  sixteen  and  eighteen. 

Although  the  lady  and  her  daughters  were  open  and  avowed 
Secessionists,  the  former  having  tw®  sons  in  the  Confederate 
army,  the  young  gentlemen  were,  nevertheless,  surprised  to  hear 
them  speaking  so  contemptuously  and  bitter  of  the  Union. 

The  young  gentlemen,  it  appears,  took  it  into  their  heads  to 
hoist  the  stars  and  stripes  on  the  top  of  their  dwelling  one  day, 
upon- which  the  lady  and  her  daughters,  vrhen  they  discovered 
it  "peacefully  floating  above  them  raised  a  storm  of  indignation. 

One  of  the  young  ladies  then  clambered  to  the  roof  of  the 
house  at  the  risk  of  life  or  limb,  and  with  the  spirit  of  tigress, 
tore  down  our  national  flag,  trampled  it  beneath  her  feet,  and 


SECOND  AMERICAN  KETOLmON.  29 

then  threw  the  fragments  into  the  stove.  Not  content  Mith 
this  (liBrespect,  this  young  traitoress  took  the  ashes  of  the  burned 
flag  and  pitched  them  contemptuously  into  the  street. 


ARTFUL  DODGE. 

We  have  heard  of  a  fellow  in  Bedford,  whose  pluck  and  pa- 
triotism not  being  of  the  fifst  order,  set  his  wits  to  work  to 
devise  some  means  to  get  himself  exempted.  At  last  he  hit 
upon  the  plan  of  puttius  some  two  or  three  dozen  bees  in  the 
leg  of  his  pantaloons,  and  on  the  day  before  the  meeting  of  the 
board  he  put  the  plan  in  execution.  On  the  day  of  meeting  he 
had  himself  conveyed  to  Liberty,  where  the  board  was  sitting, 
and,  upon  examination  by  two  doctors  learned  in  physic,  his 
legs  were  found  terribly  swollen.  Inquiry  was  made  of  the 
suftVrer  as  to  how  long  he  had  been  afflicted,  and  upon  his  an- 
swering for  several  years,  the  doctors  pronounced  him  imfit  for 
service,  and  he  was  accordingly  exempted.  His  wife,  however, 
with  a  loquacity  for  which  we  suppose  she  gets  no  thanks  from 
the  would  be  exempt,  let  the  cat  out  of  the  bag,  and  the  trick 
coming  to  the  knowledge  of  the  board,  the  fellow  was  again 
summoned,  and  upon  his  examination  the  swelling  before  pro- 
nounced incurable  had  disappeared.  He  was  served  as  his 
cowardly  conduct  merited,  and  forced  into  the  ranks  whether  or 
not. — Lynchburg  Republican. 


ACTS  OF  KINDNESS  AND  DEVOTION  OF  THE  LADIES  OF 
LOUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY. 

Ix  Camp  at  Manchester,  Tennessee,  ) 
February,  V,  1863.      f 

A  chaplain  who  remained  with  our  wounded  who  were  left 
at  Murfreesboro',  when  we  retired  from  that  place,  has  arrived 
here.  Before  returning  to  our  lines  he  went  to  Louisville,  and 
describes,  in  touching  language,  a  visit  to  Cavehille  Cemetery, 
near  that  city.  He  was  carried  to  that  lovely  city  of  the  dead 
by  a  noble  hearted  citizen  of  Louisville,  whose  liberahty  and  en- 
ergy have  given  a  proper  burial  to  every  Coufederate  soldier 
that  has  died  in  the  city.  Here,  on  the  Northern  border  of 
Kentucky,  he  beheld  a  sight  that  should  ]mt  to  shame  many 
who  inhabit  cities  farther  South.  The  grave  of  every  Confede- 
rate was  raised,  sodded,  and  not  a  few  surrounded  with  flowers. 
The  name  of^  the  soldier,  his  State,  and  regiment,  was  lettered 
in  black  on  a  neat  white  head-board,  around  which  hung  a 
wreath  of  myrtle,  the  Christmas  offering  of  the  true  Southern 
ladies  of  Louisville,  to  the  noble  dead.  In  the  grounds  allotted 
to  the  burial  of  the  Federal  dead,  he  found  the  graves  sunken 


30  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

and  uncared  fored  for;  but  few  having  stones  or  boards,  or 
marks  of  any  kind. 

The  Yankee  Congress  has  passed  an  act  punishing  with  fine 
and  imprisonment,  any  one  caught  corresponding  with  a  rebeh 
Another  is  added  to  the  previously  existing  trials  (»f  the 
mothers,  wives  and  sisters  of  the  Kentuckians  in  our  army.  I 
sincerely  hope  their  devotion  to  our  cause  may  be  repaid  by  an 
early  release  from  Lincoln's  hated  rule.  VOLUNTEER. 


MOUPJi  THOU  LA.ND  OE  FLO  WEES-BANISHMENT  OF 
FAMILIES  FEOM  ST-  AUGUSTISE,  FLOEI DA-INHUMAN 
TREATMENT  OF  WOMEN  AND  CHILDEEN-THE  FIDE- 
EALS  AT  KE¥/  OELEANS. 

We  yesterday  had  an  interview  with  the  lady  of  an  esteemed 
citii^en  of  Savannah,  who,  with  her  lamily  of  five  little  children, 
has  just  arrived  from  St.  Augustine.  She  gives  an  account  of 
Yankee  barbarism,  and  the  hardships  she  had  to  encounter  in 
her  efforts  to  reach  her  home  in  this  city. 

In  the  early  part  of  September,  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of 
St.  Augustine,  male  and  female,  from  the  age  of  fourteen  years 
and  upwards,  was  ordered  by  General  Saxon  to  assemble  at  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  The  meeting  being  assembled  at  the  ap- 
pointed time,  Colonel  Beard,  of  the  Provost  Guard,  opened  his 
address  as  follows  :  ''I  do  not  know  whether  to  address  you 
(ladies  present,)  as  ladies  or  women^  as  all  Broadway  crinolined 
women  are  called  ladies /^^  It  was  soon  ascertained,  irom  the 
speaker's  remarks  that  the  object  of  the  meeting  was  to  have 
the  oath  of  alleg-iance  to  the  United  States  administered.^  A 
guard  was  stationed  at  the  door  to  "prevent  any  from  leaving. 
Those  who  refused  to  take  the  oath  were  required  to  go  in  the 
Cfalleries — some  two  to  three  hundred  men,  women  and  children. 
The  others  were  furnished  with  certificates  and  allowed  to  de- 
part. Those  from  the  gal leries  were  then  called  do  wn  to  receive, 
as  Colonel  Beard  termed  it,  their  "benediction."  They  were 
forced  to  register  their  names,  together  with  the  number  of 
their  respective  residences.  This  having  been  gone  through 
with,  ho  told  them  that  when  he  was  ready  he  would  give  all 
the  women  and  children  among  them  who  had  relatives  in  the 
Confederacy,  "a  free  ride  across  the  lines." 

He  then  gave  orders  to  the  guard  to  permit  the  ladies  to  pass 
to  their  homes.  Their  residences  were  duly  labeled,  and  about 
a  week  after  the  meeting,  wagons  were  sent  for  their  baggage, 
and  these  banished  people  were  taken  on  board  a  transport. 
The  steamer  left  for  the  St.  John's  river  with  some  fifty  tami- 
lies— about  one  hundred  and  fifty  women  and  children  huddled 
together,  without  a  bed  to  rest  on,  or  any  accommodations 
whatever,  and  kept  two  and  a  half  days  outside  without  food  or 


^  SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTIGN.  31 

water  save  what  they  took  with  them,  and  in  their  sickness  were 
retuRcd  even  Avater  to  drink.  Fearing  to  enter  the  St.  Johu'.s, 
as  our  informant  supposes,  they  were  taken  back  to  St.  Augus- 
tine, and  when  near  that  place  it  was  ascertained  that  the  vessel 
was  leaking  badly,  having  some  four  feet  of  water  in  the  hold. 
It  was  supposed  on  board  that  the  negroes  had  attempted  to 
scuttle  tlie  vessel  in  order  to  drown  the  "Secesh." 

Our  informant,  who  was  among  the  sufferers,  having  been 
furnished  a  pass  which  had  been  s(»melinie  previously  promised 
her  was  placed  with  her  young  charge  and  her  baggnge  in  a 
cart  and  taken  across  the  country  to  tlie  St.  John's  river.  The 
cart  having  broken  down  several  times  on  the  way,  they  were 
forced  to  walk  and  seek  shelter  in  a  negro  cabin,  with  nothing 
but  the  naked  floor  to  sleep  upon,  their  teet  and  limbs  sore  and 
bruised,  and  their  dresses  torn  by  briars.  Arriving  at  the  St. 
Johns,  they  Wijre  taken  across  in  a  small  boat,  where  they  pro- 
cured another  cart  and  reached  the  railroad  at  Trail  Ifidge. 
They  were,  after  seven?  snlFering,  some  ten  days  in  their  trouble 
to  get  to  our  lines.  Takmg  the  railroad  they  came  by  way  of 
Lake  City,  and  reached  this  city,  to  the  great  joy  of  themselves 
and  friends,  Saturday  eveiiing  last. 

General  ^Mitchell  sent  notice  from  Hilton  Head  to  St.  Augus- 
tine, previous  to  her  leaving,  that  he  would  send  a  boat  to  that 
place  and  take  all  the  ladies,  who  had  refused  to  take  the  oath, 
to  Jacksonville. 

She  states  that  the  poor  of  St.  Augustine  arc  regularly  fur- 
nished v>'v\i  rations  by  the  Federals;  Imt  it  was  rumored  they 
intended  to  stop  the  supply. 

The  troops  are  respectful  to  the  ladies,  in  passing  them  in  the 
streets,  and  are  very  orderly. 

The  soldiers  arc  kept  in  tlieir  quarters  at  St.  Francis  Bairacks, 
which  is  in  the  south  end  of  the  city,  and  in  Fort  Marion  in  the 
north  end. 

There  is  but  one  regiment  in  St.  Augustine,  the  Tth  New 
Hampshire,  Colonel  Putnam,  comprising  eight  hundred  men, 
and  a  cav:  Iry  cor[)s. 

Colonel  IJeard  is  in  command  of  the  Provost  Guard,  and 
Ca])tain  Durgin  is  the  Provost  Marshal. 

During  the  day  one  company  is  stationed  at  the  barracks,  one 
at  the  Planter^'  Hotel,  one  on  the  Hill  at  Fort  ]M.irion.  iin<l  the 
remainder  of  the  regiment,  excejjt  the  pickets,  in  the  Foi  t. 

A  gallant  C;ipfain  of  one  of  the  companies  in  riding  out  a 
short  time  ago,  be\ond  the  pickets,  lost  iiis  way  and  wa«i  lired 
upon  by  guiiillas.  He  made  good  his  escape  after  luhiiig  his 
sword,  and  his  horse  being  shot.  Arriving  in  the  city  willi  bis 
revolver  in  his  hand,  lie  .'«tate(l  his  misfortune,  but  boa>te<l  that 
he  thought  he  killed  three  gueiillas  with  his  revolver. 

The  Fe^leral  officers  iu  St.  Augustine  b<)aste<l  liiat  their  Gov- 
ernment intended  to  take  Chariebton,  Savanuab  and  Mobile  this 


32  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

winter.  They  expressed  the  hope  that  when  the  demand  was 
made  for  the  surrender  of  Savannah  it  would  be  given  up.  As 
there  were  many  Northern  people  and  mnch  Northern  property 
in  this  city,  they  did  not  wish  to  shell  it ;  but  if  the  surrender 
was  refused,  they  would  be  compelled  to  destroy  the  city. 

No  articles  ot  gold  or  silver  will  be  allowed  to  leave  the  city 
in  the  baggage  of  those  who  are  sent  away,  which  is  regularly 
searched,  in  order  to  prevent  them  getting  into  the  hands  of  the 
Confederates  to  be  coined  into  money. 

Groceries  of  all  kinds  are  selling  at  very  low  figures,  for  gold 
and  silver  only.     She  saw  no  paper  cu'-rency  in  circulation. 

SavaJinah  MepuhUcan,  October  14,  1862. 


A  CRY  FOR  VENGEANCE-LATE  FROM  MISSOURI. 

The  editor  of  the  Jackson  "Crisis"  has  seen' a  gentleman 
direct  from  Missouri,  whose  reliability  he  vouches  for,  and  learns 
from  him  the  following  interesting  intelligence  faom  that  op- 
pressed State : 

The  true-hearted  Southern  people  of  the  State  are  as  hopeful 
and  sanguine  of  the  final  success  of  our  cause  as  our  brave  sol- 
diers here  in  the  army.  The  people  do  not  feel  that  they  are 
part  and  parcel  of  the  Lincoln  empire,  but  are  waiting  patiently 
for  the  day  to  arrive  when  they  can  openly  avow  their  alle- 
giance to  the  Confederacy.  The  late  elections  in  the  State,  in 
which  the  abolitionists  were  successful,  have  only  caused  the 
people  to  set  a  higher  estimate  upon  the  value  of  Southern  inde- 
pendence. The  sentiments  of  the  true  Southern  people  have 
not  been  changed  by  the  tyranny  of  a  military  government, 
while  the  eyes  of  many  of  the  former  Union  men  have  been 
opened  to  see  the  enormity  of  Federal  usurpations,  and  their 
views  have  been  accordingly  changed. 

The  late  elections,  lie  says,  do,  by  no  means,  reflect  the  senti- 
ment of  the  people ;  but  a  few,  comparatively,  of  the  Southern 
men  participated  in  the  election — where  they  did  vote,  they 
voted  for  men  known  to  be  Southemi  in  sentiment. 

Deniphan  and  Wolf,  the  Senator  and  Representative  during 
«>en.  Price's  stay  in  north-west  Missouri,  took  their  negroes  to 
Arkansas  and  left  them  there,  while  they  returned  home  to  enjoy 
quiet  and  peace.  Whilst  the  canvass  was  going  on  in  Platte, 
Curtis  went  into  Arkansas,  seized  their  negroes  and  freed 
them. 

In  Clay,  James  H.  Moss  commands  a  Federal  regiment,  and  is 
stationed  at  Liberty.  Colonel  Doniphan  is  pursuing  his  old 
course,  taking  no  active  part  either  one  way  or  the  other. 

In  Buchanan,  Willard  P.  Hall  is  Brigadier  General  command- 
ing the  militia  of  the  district.  He  superseded  B.  F.  Loan,  who 
was  elected  to  Congress.  Hall  is  also  Lieutenant  Governor  of 
the  State  under  the  Provisional  Government.     Colonel  Wm.  R. 


SECOND  AMEEICAN  REVOLUTION.  33 

Pennick,  in  command  of  a  regiment  of  militia,  not  long  since 
left  St.  Joseph  with  his  troops,  in  search  of  "  biishwackers," 
and  having  reached  Clay  county,  arrested  Charles  Pullins,  who 
left  Buchanan  in  company  with  Captain  Gibson  for  the  Southern 
army.  Pullins  was  taken  to  Liberty,  a  mock  trial  was  gone 
through  with,  and  he  was  condemned  to  be  himg.  He  offered 
to  prove  that  he  was  a  regularly  enlisted  Confederate  soldier, 
but  was  denied  the  privilege  and  accordingly  hung. 

After  hanging  Pullins,  Pennick  proceeded  two  or  three  miles 
further,  and  found  two  men  sitting  in  a  widow's  door.  He  asked 
them  if  they  knew  of  the  whereabouts  of  any  "  bushwackers." 
Upon  being  answered  in  the  negative,  he  proceeded  a  short  dis- 
tance when  he  was  attacked,  and  his  regiment  repulsed  by  men 
concealed  in  the  brush.  Pennick  immediately  returned  to  the 
widow's  house,  hung  the  two  men  he  had  seen  there  and  burned 
the  widow's  house.  Crossing  the  river  into  Jackson  county, 
nominally  in  search  of  Quantrel,  some  of  his  men  arrested  a  boy 
who  was  taking  clothes  to  Quantrel's  command.  They  went  to 
the  house  of  the  boy's  mother,  who  was  a  widow,  seized  and 
himg  both  her  and  her  son.  This  man,  Pennick,  disgraces  the  posi- 
tion of  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master  of  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity in  Missouri. 

We  regret  to  learn  that  Captain  Boyd,  of  St.  Joseph,  and 
Captain  Hart,  who  so  gallantly  upheld  the  standard  of  Missouri, 
during  the  campaign  of  1861-62,  died  of  wounds  received  at 
Independence  last  August.  They  were  Confederate  officers. 
Henry  M.  Voorhees,  Esq.,  of  St.  Joseph,  was  defeated  as  the 
pro-slavery  candidate  for  the  Legislature  by  the  Abolitionists 
and  weak-kneed  Southerners.  * 

In  Clinton  county  the  notorious  James  H.  Birch  is  "  covort- 
ing"  as  usual.  James  H.  Birch,  Jr.,  is  in  command  at  Platts- 
burg. 

The  prices  of  articles  will  look  strange  to  some  in  the  South. 
Crops  of  every  description  were  abundant — better  than  for 
several  years.  Corn  sells  at  $1.25  per  barrel  of  five  bushels, 
pork  $2,50,  bacon  6  to  8  cents,  coffee  50  cents,  sugar  25  cents, 
wheat  70  cents,  hemp  $3  to  $3.50,  tobacco  high  and  stock  of  all 
kinds  commanding  a  high  price.  Gold  is  very  scarce,  but 
"  greenbacks  "  are  very  abundant  and  at  a  heavy  discount. 

All  the  county  seals  are  garrisoned  by  militia,  the  Federal 
troops  having  been  entirely  withdrawn.  This  gentleman  thinks 
it  the  height  of  folly  for  Missourians  to  think  of  returning  home 
until  our  army  is  thrown  into  the  State. 

lie  says,  also,  that  the  families  of  all  absent  Southern  soldiers 
.are  well  attended  to,  and  are  not  permitted  to  suffer  for  any  of 
the  comforts  of  life.  No  Missouri  soldier  need  fear  that  hiA- 
family  is  is  want  of  anything  to  render  them  comfortable. 


Q;^  THE   WOMEN  OF  THE 

HOME  FOE  INVALID  LADIES-INTERESTING  CORSES- 
P?NDENCE-W0MAN  ALWAYS  FOREMOST  IN  PBJOMO- 
TING  A  GOOD  CAUSE-GOD  BLESS  HER  EFFORTS  WITH 

SUCCESS.  ^     „. 

From  the  Atlanta  Intelligencer. 

TO  THE  CITIZENS  OF  ATLANTA. 

Atlanta,  March  11, 1863. 
Mr.  Editor:  la  yesterday's  issue  of  the  « Commouwealth,^^ 
I  notice  a  report  of  various  donations  for  the  "  Ladies  Home, 
from  Mrs.  J.N.  Simmons,  President  of  the  Fmauce  Comnaittee ; 
and  also,  that  Miss  Fannie  Holmes  and  myself  had  kmdly 
offered  our  services  to  canvass  Atlanta,  I  simply  state  that  I  am 
■proud  of  an  agency  in  a  cause  so  noble,  and  that  m  a  tew  days 
'.we  shall  commence  the  delightful  task.  „  ,,    ,     _  :„ 

I  have,  in  conaeetion  with  other  ladies,  done  all  that  was  in 
my  power  to  do  for  the  soldier;  but  while  m  doing  this,  I 
neither  can,  nor  will  turn  a  deaf  ear  to  the  ways  and  mea^s  of 
affording  relief  to  the  afflicted  of  our  own  sex-whom  we  should 
especially  cherish.  Noble-hearted  ladies  !  I  love  and  trust  that 
due  sympathy  is  exercised  towards  every  worthy  female.  Thou- 
sands of  our  ladies  every  year  are  dropping  from  the  stage  ot 
action  into  premature  graves  for  want  of  the  advantages  which 
can  be  realized  in  such  an  institution  as  Professor  Powell  pro- 

^ThVladSs  of  our  proud  and  devoted  country  have  done  the 
greater  part  for  our  independence.  They  have  sent  forth  their 
Lns  into  the  field  of  battle-a  host  now  fighting  for  our  rights 
and  institutions-what  a  sacrifice?  ^  I  ask,  where  is  the  gentle- 
man or  lady  that  would  withhold  his  or  her  mite  to  make  the.e 
mothers  and  daughters  independent  of  a  common  foe  Is  there 
one  nation  disposed  to  offer  us  the  hand  of  friendship  ?  No 
no !  The  necessity  of  our  institution  is  then  a  settled  popt,  and 
Thope  our  intelligent  gentlemen  and  ladies  wiU  ^PPf  Xal^J 
efforts  to  aid  in  the  institution  we  so  much  need  and  that  mil 
reflect  so  much  credit  on  the  generosity  of  Southerners.  We 
Lope  our  philanthropic  gentlemen  will  give  liberally,  which  we 
shall  recei^ve  as  a  token  of  their  esteem-affection-mdeed,  love 
?or  the  ladies  of  our  Confederacy,  Oar  institution  we  must 
have  we  will  have,  and  as  Atlanta  is  the  place  to  give  it  birth, 
why%^thhold  the  petty  sum  that  shall  usher  into  this  city  an 
institution  of  so  much  intrinsic  value-one  so  honorable. 

We  know  Professor  Powell  and  the  elevated  position  he 
holds  in  our  Medical  College,  in  which  he  has  so  er^u^enUy  sus^ 
tained  himself.  We  know  him  m  our  famihes  as  a  valuable 
practitioner  of  medicine.  We  know  him  as  a  man  of  christian 
character,  and  one  of  inestimable  worth,  and  since  H^s  sefv^oes 
can  be  procured  in  an  institution  of  immense  responsibihty,  is 
there  one  who  will  refose  to  aid  in  an  enterprise  so  elev^t^^,  «« 
noble.    I  trust  your  inclinations  will  prompt  you  to  a  liberal 


SECOND  AMERICAN  RETOLUTION.  35 

subscription.  Any  person  subscribing  twenty  dollars  or  more, 
as  will  be  seen  by  Mrs.  Simmons'  Circular,  wiH  receive  one  copy 
of  the  book  worth  ten  dollars,  and  credited  with  a  donation  of 
the  amount  received,  minus  ten  dollars. 

There  are  hundreds  of  ladies  in  the  Confederacy  that  might 
offer  to  Mrs.  J.  N.  Simmons  their  services  to  act  as  agentsfor 
the  "  Ladies'  Home" — securing  credit  to  themselves  and  benelit 
to  an  enterprise  so  benevolent. 

Institutions  of  this  nature  have  very  many  years  since  been 
established  in  the  North,  and  have  been  productive  of  much 
good — consequently  many  of  our  ladies  have  sought  relief  from 
the  various  maladies  with  which  they  have  be^n-  afflicted  in 
those  institutions ;  but  the  time  has  come  that  we  are  thrown 
upon  our  own  resources.  Then  why  not  commence  at  once  this 
benevolent,  valuable  and  honorable  work  in  our  midst.  Why 
linger.  It  must  be  done — it  shall  be  done.  Let  lliese  words 
be  prophetic,  and  aid  us  so  far  as  lies  in  your  power,  feelinor 
assured  that  the  liberal  hand  becomes  the  rich. 

ABBY  FOOT  FARKAK. 

Correspondence  of  the  Macon  Telegraph. 
HOME    FOR    INVALID     LADIES. 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  March  7,  1863. 

3fr.  Joseph  Clishy:  The  Ladies  of  the  Finance  Committee 
iiave  read  Avith  much  pleasure  your  very  kind  and  complimentary 
letter,  written  in  behalf  of  the  Editorial  Convention,  and  in 
response  to  their  own  addressed  to  that  intelligent  body  of 
gentlemen.  Please  present  to  them  through  your  paper  our 
grateful  thanks  for  the  cordial  and  flattering  manner  in  which 
our  communication  was  received,  and  for  the  resolutions  so 
promptly  taken  to  aid  in  the  enterprise  submitted  to  their  con- 
sideration. We  were  satisfied  that  an  appeal  from  the  pen  of 
woman,  if  it  did  not  succeed  in  moving  others,  would  never  fall 
unheeded  upon  the  ears  of  the  intelligent  gentlemen  who  pre- 
side over  our  high-toned  Southern  press,  and  failing  to  find 
friends  in  them,  we  would,  indeed,  think  there  were  none  "to 
do  us  reverence." 

Your  compliments  to  the  worth  and  patriotism  of  Southern 
women  are  gratefully  and  fully  appreciated,  and  it  thrills  our 
hearts  with  pride  and  pleasure  to  know  that  we  can  accept  them  as 
our  "meed"  from  our  noble  countrymen,  and  feel  that  wo  have 
tried  to  make  ourselves  worthy  the  high  appreciation  of  those 
to  whom  we  look  for  help  and  defence.  It  is  one  of  woman's 
highest  pleasures  to  find  that  her  noble  anti  praiseworthy  efforts 
are  appreciated  by  gentlemen  of  worth  and  intelligence,  but  in 
our  present  struggle  for  independence,  she  fears  that  her  efforts 
for  the  success  of  our  cause  have  been  rather  selfish  at  last.  It 
would  give  Southern  w^omen  no  pride  or  pleasure  to  be  exalted 
to  any  position,  it  their  brave  countrymen  were  made  bondmen 


36  THE  WOMEN  Of  THE 

and  slaves ;  for  them,  fox*  their  honor  and  happiness,  we  live, 
and  the  chains  of  tyranny  that  fettered  their  limbs,  would  also 
binds  us  in  a  slavish  thraldom.  The  moon  can  only  borrow  its 
light  from  the  resplendent  beams  of  the  sun ;  if  the  regal  oak 
is  prostrated  in  the  depth  of  the  forest,  the  ivy  that  clings  to 
its  strength  and  embrace  will  also  fall  in  the  ruin — and  if  our 
countrymen  are  degraded  and  made  slaves,  Sovithern  women 
must  bid  farewell  to  their  proud  and  high  prerogatives  of  birth 
add  position,  and  also  to  their  dearest  happiness — loving,  and 
being  beloved  and  re&pected  by  men  who,  disdaining  the  bonds 
that  would  enslave  them,  can  still  tread  the  blood-stained  soil  of 
the  South  with  their  honor  untarnished,  and  a  spirit  that  can 
never  succumb  to  the  tyranny  of  oppression. 

In  conclusion  please  also  accept  the  thanks  of  the  Committee 
for  the  kind  wishes  expressed  for  the  success  of  the  humane 
enterprise  in  which  we  are  engaged.  The  assurance  of  them 
will  much  encourage  us  to  persevere,  and  among  the  personal 
records  of  the  "Home,"  we  will  ever  point  with  grateful  plea- 
sure to  the  names  of  the  true  and  noble  editorial  gentlemen  of 
the  South,  who  could  not  turn  away  from  an  appeal  made  in 
the  name,  and  in  the  behalf  of  woman. 

MISS  M.  LOUISE  ROGERS, 
Corresponding  Secretary  in  behalf  of  Committee. 

HOME  FOR  INVALID  LADIES. 

We  give  here  in  a  condensed  form  as  possible,  the  plan  of  the 
enterprise,  and  we  will  be  under  many  obligations  if  the  gentle- 
men of  the  press  will  publish  it  in  their  journals  until  it  is 
known  to  the  public,  at  the  same  time  hoping  they  will  "  say  a 
word  for  us"  as  they  deem  proper  and  necessary. 

The  book,  to  be  entitled  "Moral  Beauties  from  the  Heart  of 
Woman,  or  Voices  from  the  South,"  will  be  published  as  soon 
as  the  blockade  is  raised.  Its  contents  are  contributed  by  the 
most  distinguished  lady  writers  of  the  South,  to  aid  in  the 
erection  of  the  Home  for  invalid  Ladies,  and  the  manuscript  is 
now  in  the  hands  of  Dr.  T.  S.  Powell.  One  of  the  most  emi- 
nent lady  writers  has  been  engaged  to  edit  the  book ;  the  proof 
sheets  will  be  printed  here,  corrected  and  perfected,  so  that 
when  the  blockade  is  raised  the  work  will  be  published  at  once. 
Its  contents  will  be  choice  and  miscellaneous  literature,  written 
expressly  for  this  work,  with  a  short  biography  of  each  con- 
tributor. The  price  of  the  first  quality  binding,  octavo  size, 
with  steel  portraits  of  many  of  the  writers,  five  dollars ;  the 
second  quality,  bound  in  muslin,  three  dollars  and  a  half ;  the 
cheapest  quality  two  dollars. 

The  Home  for  Invalid  Ladies  is  not  designed  simply  as  a  hos- 
pital or  infirmary,  but  a  complete  pleasant,  and  beautiful  retreat 
for  invalid  ladies  of  respectability — stately,  elegant  and  com- 
modious.   The  interior  is  to  be  furnished  with  all  necessary 


SECOND  AMERICAN  RETOLUTTON.  37 

medical  apparatus,  baths,  and  other  appliances ;  a  library  of 
choice  reading,  musical  instruments,  and  paintings  to  adorn  the 
walls,  while  the  grounds  will  be  ornamented  with  stately  trees 
and  flowering  shrubs,  and  riding  facilities  furnished  by  the  in- 
mates. Such  healthful  accessories,  together  with  the  best 
medical  attendance,  cannot  fail  to  restore  the  bloom  to  the 
pallid  cheek,  and  bring  back  elasticity  to  the  faltering  step  and 
wasted  form  of  the  invalid.  The  "Home"  will  be  built  on  a 
beautiful  eminence  near  the  Mineral  Spring  near  this  city,  the 
waters  of  which  have  been  tested  as  higlily  beneficial  in  many 
diseases. 

But  while  Dr.  Powell,  by  the  sale  of  the  book,  and  his  own 
means,  will  erect  the  building,  the  ladies  desire  io  furnish  it  by 
donations  from  all  ladies  throughout  the  Confederacy,  who  will 
give  one  dollar  or  more,  and  will  be  glad  to  have  any  contribu- 
tions from  gentlhmen  who  wish  success  to  the  enterprise.  It 
will  require  a  considerable  amount  of  money  to  furnish  the  home 
as  is  desired,  but  we  know  there  is  enough  wealth  and  gene- 
rosity among  the  Southern  people  to  accomplish  this  if  they 
will  only  promptly  respond  to  the  call.  The  ladies  of  the  North 
built  a  similar  institution  some  years  ago,  and  as  the  superior 
valor  of  our  troops  has  been  fully  tested  during  the  war,  South- 
ern women  will  surely  not  prove  themselves  inferior  in  gene- 
rosity aad  benevolence  towards  their  own  sex  to  the  women  of 
the  Northern  States.  The  name  of  every  donor  and  the  amount 
given  will  be  promptly  recorded,  and  at  a  suitable  time  will  be 
published  in  pamphlet  form,  circulated  through  the  country, 
and  permanently  kept  in  the  institution.  This  donation  fund 
will  be  given  to  Dr.  Powell  to  make  the  purchases  in  P^urope 
that  cannot  be  obtained  here.  He  will  report  to  the  Committee 
of  ladies  the  amount  of  money  received  and  expended,  and  this 
will  be  published.  After  the  "  Home"  is  completed,  he  pledges 
himself  to  return  this  donation  fund  in  gratuitous  me<lical  at- 
tendance upon  needy  invalid  ladies,  so  while  this  amount  will 
furnish  the  "Home,"  it  will  also  be  the  means  of  restoring 
many  a  poor  woman  to  health,  who  might  otherwise  find  death 
41  welcome  release  from  her  sufi'erings. 

As  the  building  will  be  erected  as  soon  as  possible,  it  is 
earnestly  desired  to  have  this  donation  fund  collected  at  once, 
so  that  soon  as  needed,  there  may  be  no  delay  in  its  appropria- 
tion. Let  all  who  can,  and  will  aid  us,  do  so  inmiediately.  We 
do  not  say  that  if  the  enterprise  fails  the  money  will  bo  re- 
funded ;  for  it  can,  and  must  succeed,  and  be  completed  at  the 
earliest  possible  time.  Nothing  need  prevent  it,  but  the  want 
of  generosity  and  humanity  among  the  Southern  peo])le. 

All  subscriptions  for  the  book  must  be  forwarded  to  Dr. 
Powell,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  but  donations  for  the  Home,  to  Mrs. 
J.  N.  Simmons,  of  the  same  place ;  and  please  let  the  names, 
post-ofiice   and  State  of  all  subscribers  or  donation  be  plainly 


38^  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

and  fully  stated.  If  any  one  wishes  to  send  six  dollars,  five  for 
the  book,  and  one  as  a  donation,  please  state  it  so. 

If  any  gentleman  of  the  press  who  were  not  present  at  the 
Convention  are  disposed  to  assist  us  in  this  enterprise,  we  will 
be  under  many  obligations  if  they  will  copy  this  circular.  The 
Home  for  Invalid  Ladies  is  not  for  the  benefit  of  one  State,  but 
for  the  entire  limits  of  the  Confederacy. 

Since  the  above  was  written,  it  has  been  suggested  by  an  in- 
fluential merchant  friend,  that  perhaps  there  are  numbers  of  this 
class — traders  and  merchants  throughout  the  Confederacy,  who 
would  like  to  give  something  from  their  articles  of  commerce  as 
a  donation  to  the  "Home."  instead  of  the  money.  We  will  be 
grateful  for  anything  of  the  kind,  and  any  merchants  who  are 
willing  to  aid  us  in  this  way,  if  they  will  send  their  contributions 
to  the  following  named  gentlemen,  they  will  be  sold  at  the 
mai-ket  price,  and  the  money  s€nt  to  us,  or  if  not  sold,  the  com- 
modities may  be  shipped  to  Salmons  &  Simmons,  of  Atlanta^ 
Ga.,  and  the  amount  which  each  article  brings  will  be  credited 
to  the  generous  donor. 

Each  person  donating  twenty  dollars  or  more  shall  receive, 
when  published,  one  copy  of  the  work  entitled,  "J/ora7  Beavir- 
ties  from  the  Heart  of  TFbman,"  worth  ten  dollars,  and  credited 
with  a  donation  of  the  amount  received,  deducting  ten  dollars 
for  the  book. 

LIST  OF  AGENTS. 

Mr.  J.  F.  Fears,  Macon,  Ga.;  Messrs.  Habersham  &  Son, 
Savannah,  Ga.;  Messrs.  Hull  &,  Duck,  Colnmbus,  Ga.;  Messrs. 
J.  A.  Ansley  &  Co.,  Augusta,  Ga.,  Mr.  F.  M.  Lucas,  Athens,, 
Ga.;  Mr.  R.  F.  Hargrove,  Rome,  Ga,;  Mr.  James  Turner,  La- 
Grange,  Ga.;  Mr.  J.  Marshall,  Madison,  Ga.;  Mr.  Thomas  Har- 
well, Eatonton,  Ga.;  Messrs.  Newton  &  Mickleberry,  Griffin,, 
Ga.;  Messrs.  Salmons  «fc  Simmons,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  Mr.  T.  M. 
Furlow,  Americus,  Ga.;  Messrs.  G.  W.  Williams  &  Co.; 
Charleston,  S.  C;  Mr.  John  C.  Dial,  Columbia,  S.  C;  Mr,  P.  F 
Prescud,  Raleigh,  N.  C;  Messrs.  J.  R.  Blossom  &  Co.,  Wil- 
*  raington,  N.  C;  Messrs.  J.  R.  Branch  &  Bros.  Petersburg,  Va.; 
Messrs.  Davis,  Roper  &,  Co.;  Petersburg,  Va.;  Messrs.  Samuel 
Ayers  &  Son,  Richmond,  Va.;  Messrs.  Charles  T,  Worsham  <fc 
Co,,  Richmond,  Va,;  Messrs.  McCorkle,  Son  &  Co.,  Lynchburg,. 
Va.;  Messrs.  McDaniel  &  Irby,  Lychburg,  Va.;  Mr.  H.  L.: 
Johnson,  Bristol,  Tenn.;  Messrs.  Clark  &  Mayo,  Knoxville, 
Tenn,;  Mr,  John  L,  M.  French,  Chattanooga,  Tenn.;  Messrs.  W. 
B.  &  A.  R.  Bell,  Montgomery,  Ala,;  Col,  J.  R.  Powell,  Mont- 
gomery, Ala.;  Messrs.  Baker  &  Lawler,  Mobile,  Ala.;  Messrs. 
Tarleton  &  Whiting,  Mobile,  Ala.;  Mr.  F.  L.  Johnson,  Selma 
Ala.;  Mr,  J.  G.  L.  Hewey,  Talladega,  Ala.;  Mr.  J.  C.  Bradleyr 
Huntsville,  Ala.;  Messrs.  Houghton,  Allen  &  Co.,  Wetumpka,»- 
Ala.;  Mr.  T.  S.  Burnett,  Greenville,  Ala.;  Messrs.  Allen  Ligon 
&  Co.,  Jackson,  Miss.;  Messrs.  Baskerville  &  Whitfield,  Colum- 


SECOND  AMEEICAN  REVOLUTION.  3& 

bus,  Miss.;  Messrs.  Moody,  Ferrall  &  Co.,  Enterprise,  Miss. 

MRS.  J.  N.  SmMONS, 
Chairman,  Finance  Committee. 
M.  Louise  Rogers,  Corresponding  Secretary. 


TflE  WORTH  OF  WOMAIT. 


FROM     THE     GERMAN     OP     SCHIU.ER. 


Honored  be  woman  !  she  beams  on  fhe  sight, 
Graceful  and  fair,  like  a  being  of  light ; 
Scatters  around  her  -wherever  she  strays, 
Roses  of  bliss  on  our  thorn-covered  waje; 
Roses  of  Paradise  fsent  from  above. 
To  be  gathered  and  twined  in  a  garland  of  Love. 

Man,  op  passion's  stormy  ocean, 

Tossed  by  surges  mountain  high, 
Courts  the  hurricane's  commotion, 

Spurns  at  reason's  feeble  cry, 
Loud  the  tempest  roars  around  him, 

Louder  still  it  roars  within, 
Flashing  lights  of  hope  confound  him, 

Stun  with  life's  incessant  din. 

Woman  invites  him  with  bliss  in  her  smile, 
To  cease  from  his  toil  and  be  happy  a  while; 
Whispering  wooingly — come  to  my  bower — 
Go  not  in  search  of  the  phactom  of  power — 
Honor  and  wealth  are  illusory — come  ! 
Happiness  dwells  in  the  temples  of  home. 

Man,  with  fury  stern  and  savage. 

Prosecutes  his  brother  man, 
Reckless  if  he  bless  or  ravage. 

Action,  action — still  his  plan. 
Now  creating,  now  destroying. 

Careless  wishes  tear  his  breast; 
Ever  seeking — ne'er  enjoying  ; 

Still  to  be,  but  never  blest. 

Woman,  contented  in  silent  repose, 

Enjoys  in  its  beauty  life's  flower  as  it  blow^-. 

And  waters  and  teuds  it  with  innocent  heart, 

Far  richer  than  man  with  his  treasures  of  art ; 

And  wiser  by  far  in  the  circles  confined, 

Than  be  with  his  silence  and  the  lights  of  the  mind. 

Coldly  to  himself  sufficing. 

Man  dit'daius  the  gentler  artf, 
Knoweth  not  the  blifs  ari^ng 

From  the  interchange  of  hearts. 
Slowly  through  his  I  oeora  stealing, 

Flows  the  genial  current  on, 
Till  by  age's  frost  congealing 

It  is  hardened  into  stone. 


40  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

She  like  the  harp  that  instinctively  rings, 
As  the  night-breathing  Z3pbyr  soft  sighs  on  the  strings, 
Responds  to  each  impulse  with  steady  reply, 
Whether  sorrow  or  pleasure  her  sympathy  try; 
And  tear  drops  and  smiles  on  her  countenance  play, 
Like  sunshine  and  showers  of  a  morning  in  May. 

Through  the  range  of  man's  dominion, 

Terror  is  the  ruling  word — 
And  the  standard  of  opinion 
Is  the  temper  of  the  sword. 
•  Strife  exults,  and  pity  Mushing, 
From  the  scene  departing  flies, 
^  Where  the  battle  madly  rushing, 

"  Brother  upon  brother  dies.    '^ 

Woman  commands  with  a  milder  control — 
She  rules  by  enchantment  the  realms  of  the  soul; 
As  she  glances  around  in  the  light  of  her  smile. 
The  war  of  her  passions  is  hushed  for  a  while. 
And  discord,  content  from  his  fury  to  cease. 
Reposes  entranced  on  the  pillows  of  peace. 


MAIf  AND  WOMAN. 

Man  is  strong — woman  is  beautiful.  Man  is  dari  ng  in  con- 
duct— woman  diffident  and  unassuming.  Man  shines  abroad — 
woman  at  home.  Man  talks  to  convince — woman  to  persuade 
and  please.  Man  has  a  rugged  heart — woman  a  soft  and  tender 
one.  Man  prevents  misery — woman  relieves  it.  Man  has 
science — woman  taste.  Mun  has  judgment — woman  sensibility. 
Man  is  a  being  of  justice — woman  of  mercy. 


THE  WOMEN  OF  THE  WEST. 

Our  informant,  who  gave  us  the  facts  in  regard  to  the  capture 
of  the  Queen  of  the  West,  on  Red  River,  and  who  was  forced 
to  go  with  the  Queen  down  the  Atchafalaya,  relates  the  follow- 
ing incident : 

At  one  of  the  places  burnt  by  the  Queen,  and  owned  by  a 
lady  who  had  been  thus  villainously  left  houseless,  the  valiant 
commander  attempted  to  converse  with  her  on  the  bank  from 
the  deck  of  his  boat.  She  proved  true  pluck  for  him.  He 
asked  her : 

"  Madam,  have  you  a  father,  brothers  or  any  other  relatives 
in  this  war  ?  " 

The  lady  was  quite  young,  a  widow,  with  two  young  boys  of 
five  and  seven  years  of  age  by  her  side.  She  answered,  in  sight 
of  the  smouldering  ruins  of  her  home  : 

"  I  have  two  brothers  in  the  army,  and  if  you  keep  on  this 
war  twelve  years  longer,  (pressing  the  heads  of  her  boys,)  I 
shall  have  two  sons  to  fight  you  till  their  deaifi !  I  expect  no- 
thing better  than  murder  and  arson  from  any  of  your  tribe." 


BECOND  AMERI<:?AN  REVOLUTION.  41 

The  commander  sloped  to  his  gun-room,  while  the  lady  and 
boys  cheered  the  departure  of  the  Queen  of  the  West  the 
"Bonnie  Blue  Flag." — N'atchcz  Courier. 


ATEOCITIES  OF  LINCOLN'S  OFFICIALS. 

The  "  Christian  Observer  "  publishes  the  appended  extract  of 
a  letter  from  a  clergyman  in  the  country,  dated  February  2l8t, 
1863: 

"  I  returned  yesterday  from  Stafford,  where  I  had  been  called 
to  attend  a  funeral.  It  was  within  a  mile  or  two  of  the  Yankee 
lines.  It  is  the  impression  that  a  portion  of  their  army  ig 
leaving  this  region.  Their  destination  is  not  known.  I  have 
buried  in  this  region  three  females  of  the  highest  social  position, 
whose  deaths  have  been  caused  by  Yankee  atrocities.  They 
were  all  in  that  situation  which  usually  excites  our  tenderest 
sympathies.  The  last  one  that  I  buried  was  the  wife  of  a  phy- 
sician, whose  husband  was  arrested  while  .attending  a  very  sick 
patient,  and  kept  from  his  family  fourteen  days.  When  he  was 
absent,  some  of  the  Yankees,  with  satanic  malignity,  came  to 
his  wife  and  told  her  that  they  had  shot  her  husband.  The 
shock  which  this  false  intelligence  produced  was  more  than*  her 
delicate  frame  could  bear,  and  she  sank  under  it.  I  could  tell 
you  much  more,  but  in  order  to  get  this  off  I  must  close." 

C OJistitiitionalist^  Mxirch  1863. 


THE  LADIES  MAKING  SHOES. 

ThcFnanklin  "  Louisianian  "  says:  Quite  a  number  of  ladies 
of  this  parisli  have  commenced  making  their  own  and  their  chil- 
dren's shoes,  and  they  do  very  good  work.  We  have  seen 
several  pairs  of  these  home-made  shoes,  and  they  are  not  only 
strong,  but  they  are  well  proportioned.  The  cheapest  way  that 
they  make  them  is  to  take  the  soles  of  old  shoes,  soak  them  in 
water  until  they  are  limber,  pick  out  the  old  stitches,  fit  theni  to 
the  last  .after  the  cloth  is  fitted  to  the  same,  sew  the  soles  to  the 
cloth  with  strong  waxed  thread,  and  then  turn  the  shoe,  nail 
the  heel  to  its  pl.ace,  and  the  shoe  is  done.  It  is  a  cheap,  ser- 
viceable, and  very  good  cloth  shoe. 


THE  LADIES  AND  GEN  PRICE-PRESENTATION  TO  GEN, 

PRICE. 

MoxTGOMERV,  Ala.,  Feb.  24,  1863, 
^Tajor  General  Stcrlhig  Price:  The  ladies  of  Montgomery, 
fully  appreciating  your  heroic  conduct,  sublime  devotion  .and 
invaluable  services  in  the  hallowed  cause  of  Southern  indepea- 


42  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

deuce,  and  desiring  to  express  their  high  esteem,  their  earnest 
undying  gratitude  to  one  whose  pure  patriotism,  whose  noble 
self-abnegation,  has  won  the  love  and  admiration  of  his  country- 
men and  women,  beg  your  acceptance  of  the  accompanying 
hat,  as  a  very  slight  testimonial  of  the  regard  and  confidence  of 
those  whose  prayers  w  ill  ever  follow  you  and  the  gallant  men 
of  your  command,  cf  w^hom  our  national  annalist  must  pro- 
claim— 

"Enough  of  merit  has  each  honored  name, 
To  shine  untarnished  on  the  roll  of  fame. 
To  stand  the  example  of  each  distant  age, 
And  add  new  lustre  to  the  historic  page." 

Very  truly  yours, 
Mrs.  S.  E.  Given,  Mes.  E.  J.  Fitzpatrick, 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Gilmer,  Mrs.  E.  D.  Fagara, 

Mrs.  E.  E.  Green,  Mrs.  General  Fair, 

Mrs.  Tom  Judge,  Mrs.  W.  Marks, 

Mrs.  Judge  Phelan,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Pollard. 


Jackson,  Miss.,  March  6,  1863. 

Madam :  I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  reception,  at 
the  hands  of  Dr.  Blackburn,  of  the  elegant  "  chapeau"  sent  to 
me  by  yourself  and  other  ladies  of  Montgomery.  I  accept  it 
with  pride,  and  shall  wear  it  in  grateful  rememberance  of  the 
fair  donors. 

When  the  history  of  this  revolution  shall  be  written,  I  trust 
that  the  ladies  of  the  South  may  receive  that  credit  to  which 
their  lofty  and  self-sacrificing  patriotii^m  so  justly  entitles  them. 
Through  our  darkest  hours  they  have  stood  firm  and  unshaken, 
seeing,  with  the  eye  of  faith  the  rainboAv  of  promise  spanning 
the  horizon  of  the  future,  when  to  others  all  seemed  gloomy, 
desolate  and  hopeless.  The  first  to  counsel  resistance  to 
tyranny,  they  have  nobly  maintained  their  position  by  sending 
forth  to  battle,  and  perhaps  to  death,  the  objects  of  their 
earthly  adoration  ;  and  this  not  reluctantly,  as  the  miser  parts 
with  his  gold,  but  cheerfully  and  courageously  they  have  laid 
their  temporal  happiness  on  the  altar  of  their  country,  content 
to  lose  everything  save  honor,  and  determined  that  at  any 
hazard  it  should  be  maintained.  Nor  have  their  exertions  stop- 
ped here.  The  soldiers  of  every  battle-field,  and  on  every 
starving  march,  and  in  every  hospital,  have  been  nerved, 
strengthened  and  encouraged  by  the  words  of  cheer  and  sym- 
pathy that  have  reached  them  from  home.  Nobly  have  the 
women  of  the  South  fulfilled  their  mission  in  this  our  struggle 
for  constitutional  government.  Their  conduct  gives  assurance 
to  the  world  that  men  descended  from  such  mothers,  having 
such  wives  and  sisters,  can  never  be  made  to  bow  the  neck  to 
the  yoke  of  oppression,  no  matter  with  what  strength  it  may  be 
forced  upon  them. 


SECOND  AMERICAN  EETOLUTION.  43 

For  the  complimentary  expressiooB  toward  myself,  contained 
in  your  letter,'!  am  deeply  grateful,  but  I  cannot  accept  them 
without  assuring  you  that  whatever  of  good  to  the  cause  I  may 
have  been  enabled  to  accompHsh  is  due  to  the  exertions  of  the 
noble  men  who  have  constituted  my  command.  They  have  en- 
dured the  heats  of  summer  and  colds  of  winter — have  faced 
death  in  its  most  horrid  forms,  in  camp  and  on  the  battle  field, 
with  a  sublime  heroism  to  which  history  presents  few  parallels. 

Again  thanking  you  for  your  kind  remembrance  of  me,  I  re- 
main, very  respectfully,  your  friend  and  obedient  servant, 

STERLING  PRICE,  Major  General. 

Mrs.  Alex.  F.  Givens  and  others,  Montgomery,  Alabama. 


THE  GREATEST  ATROCITY  YET  OF  THE  ENEMY. 

Mr.  Caswell  Woods,  a  resident  of  Craven  county.  North 
Carolina,  had  his  house  entered  at  midnight  on  the  second  of 
October  by  two  Yankee  troopers  armed  with  pistol  and  sabre, 
who  committed  outrages  of  which  the  details  are  not  fit  for 
publication.  Mr.  Woods  is  represented  to  be  a  respectable 
citizen.  The  Richmond  "Enquirer"  gives  the  main  tacts  of 
the  case  as  contained  in  the  subjoined  depositions  by  Mr.  Woods 
and  his  wife.  It  is  with  reluctance  that  we  insert  details  so 
shocking  to  all  sense  of  delicacy,  but  the  necessity  of  placing 
on  record  such  atrocities  as  exhibit  the  character  ot  our  foe  who 
permits  their  perpetration,  requires  this  duty  of  us.  Mr.  Woods 
deposes  as  follows : 

"  I  came  down  stairs  in  ray  night  clothes.  The  front  door 
had  been  burst  open.  One  ot  the  men  had  rode  into  the  house 
on  his  horse.  The  other  walked  in.  The  one  on  the  horse,  who 
appeared  to  be  an  officer,  commenced  cursing  me,  and  asked  me 
where  I  was  two  d:»ys  before.  When  I  told  him  I  was  home, 
he  said,  '  You  lie,  for  you  shot  at  me.'  Upon  this  pretence,  they 
cut  the  cord  from  a  bed  in  the  room,  said  they  would  hang  him, 
but  finally  tied  him,  took  him  out  of  the  house  and  lashed  him 
to  a  tree,  with  the  threat  of  instant  death  if  he  made  any  outcry 
or  attempted  to  get  loose.  They  returned  to  the  house  and 
locked  the  door  alter  them,  and  the  old  man  had  the  inexpressi- 
ble agony  of  listening  for  the  rest  of  the  night  to  the  screams 
and  doleful  lamentations  of  his  wife  and  daughter." 

The  statement  made  by  Mrs.  Woods  in  her  deposition  of 
what  passed  inside,  is  truly  heartrending.  The  unparalleled 
villians  made  the  poor  helpless  women  not  merely  the  victims  of 
their  brutal  lust,  but  accompanied  the  outrage,  which  i.s  worse 
than  death,  with  circumstances  that  mark  them  as  the  most 
abandoned  of  villians.  With  jiislol  in  hand  and  with  threat  of 
instant  death,  the  deponent  was  required  by  one  of  the  beastR 
to  divest  herself  of  every  ]»artic]e  of  clothing.  But  this  was 
almost  Christian  treatment  compared  with  other  acts  which  may 


44  THE  WO^fEN  OF  THE 

not  be  related.  While  such  were  her  own  sufferingis,  the  shrieks 
of  her  daughter  in  another  room  told  that  hers  was  a  similar 
fate.  About  sunrise  the  next  morning  the  human  devils  de- 
parted. 

The  following  remarks  were  made  by  the  "Enquirer"  on  the 
subject; 

The  depositions  have  been  laid  before  us  with  the  suggestion 
endorsed  thereon  by  the  Adjutant  General  "  that  so  much  of 
this  account  as  is  not  too  foul  for  publication  should  be  given  to 
the  public,  through  the  press,  in  order  that  the  righteous  indig- 
nation of  our  people,  our  Generals  and  our  armies,  may,  under 
the  providence  of  God,  visit  a  just  retribution  upon  an  enemy 
80  fiendlike."  Concurring  in  the  propriety  of  the  suggestion, 
we  have  acted  accordingly. 

We  are  happy  to  say  that  General  Gustavus  W.  Smith  has 
directed  every  effort  to  be  made  to  ascertain  the  names  of  the 
parties,  and  to  "  demand  their  delivery  for  trial  and  punish- 
ment." We  hope  copies  of  the  depositions  have  been  forwarded 
to  the  authorities  of  the  enemy.  Surely  there  are  some,  even 
among  them,  who  would  be  horrified  by  such  conduct.  The 
vengeance  of  Heaven  must  light  upon  them  and  their  cause  ! 

January  6,  1863. 


EOBBERY  OF  A  LADY. 


We  learn  from  the  Memphis  "  Argus  "  tkat  during  General 
Hovey's  late  expedition  into  this  State,  a  lot  of  soldiers  went  to 
the  plantation  of  a  Miss  Hill,  on  Coldwater,  twenty-two  miles 
from  Friar's  Point,  in  Coahoma  county,  and  ransacked  her 
premises,  taking  from  her  $30,000  in  gold,  and  a  large  lot  of 
Confederate  sci'ip  ;  also  sixty  mules,  and  much  other  property. 
Miss  Hill's  father  died  a  few  weeks  ago,  and  had  left  her  an 
immense  estate,  which  has  been  taken  from  her  in  a  single  day. 
There  was  no  white  male  person  on  the  premises  when  the 
stragglers  'entered,  but  one  man,  the  overseer,  who  ranaway  at 
lightning  speed. 

Miss  H.  went  to  Helena,  accompanied  by  her  guardian,  on  the 
13th,  to  endeavor  to  recover  her  property,  when  she  received 
only  fair  promises  from  the  Federal  commander.  No  clue  was 
obtained  as  to  the  whereabouts  of  her  property. 

Memphis  Appeal^  Dec.  22. 


PATRIOTIC  AND  TRUE  DEVOTION  OF  WOMAN. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  recent  letter  from  Mrs.  M. 
L.  Woodson,  now  residing  in  Texas,  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  Isaac 
Winship,  the  indefatigable  and  patriotic  President  of  the  At- 
lanta Hospital  Association.     We  doubt  not  that  the  sentiments 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  45 

will    meet   a   hearty  response   from    the   noble  self-sacrificing 
women  of  the  whole  South  : 

My  Dear  Sister  /  *  *  *  I  have  uotliing  to  communicate  at 
present.  You  have  seen  in  the  papers  the  account  of  the  fall  of 
Arkansas  Post.  My  two  poor  boys  were  there,  but  where  they 
are  noxo  I  do  not  know.  We  learned  from  a  Commissary  who 
made  his  escape  Irom  the  Post,  that  they  were  in  the  fight. — 
Miller  was  in  charge  of  a  hosj^ital,  but  he  left  it  and  went  into 
the  trenches  and  fought  as  a  private.  The  returned  soldier 
pays  he  saw  Swan  and  Miller  both  as  they  went  into  the  fight, 
but  knows  no  more  concerning  them.  They  were  three  days  and 
nights  in  the  trenches,  without  sleep,  and  I  expect  without  food. 
Judging  from  the  reports  we  have,  they  must  have  eufllered 
awfully  from  sickness  while  at  the  Post.  The  company  which 
went  from  here  lost  a  great  many  by  sickness. 

There  were  8,000  men  at  the  Post,  and  only  4,400  were  re- 
ported as  able  to  go  into  the  battle.  They  fought  seven  gun- 
boats and  the  land  force,  said  to  be  40,000  strong,  for  thirty-six 
hours.  Being  completely  surrounded  by  land  forces,  the  few 
who  escaped,  did  so  by  swimming. 

Swan  had  just  recovered  from  a  spell  of  six  weeks'  illnesp, 
and  returned  to  camps.  Not  a  line  from  anybody  at  that  place 
has  ever  reached  us  since  the  battle.  The  sick  were  left  in  the 
hospitals.  Some  of  my  nearest  neighbors  were  there,  but  their 
iriends  have  not  heard  from  them,  nor  do  we  know  who  were 
among  the  killed  and  wounded.  We  know  but  little  besides 
what  the  newspapers  say. 

If  my  song  are  alive,  they  are  prisoners,  and  taken  to  some 
Lincoln  prison.  The  reflection  that  they  are  in  the  hands  of 
such  cruel,  inhumane  creatures  is  as  much  as  I  have  fortitude 
and  patriotism  to  bear.  But  they  are  in  the  hnnds  of  God,  and 
to  him  I  commit  them,  but  if  they  return  to  me  no  more,  my 
setting  sun  will  go  down  in  clouds.  Yet  I  will  not  despair — 
our  cause  is  worthy  of  .any  sacrifice — even  the  loss  of  my  be- 
loved and  brave  boys  will  not  dampen  my  zeal  in  my  country's 
cause — No ;  better  a  thousand  times,  that  every  Southern  man 
should  perish,  than  yield  their  cause.  All  have  sufiercd  the  loss, 
either  of  kindred  or  friends,  in  this  cruel  war,  and  I  must  not 
complain  if  it  is  my  fate  to  have  torn  from  mc  those  I  loved 
with  no  common  aifection  ;  and  no  mother  had  more  cause  to 
love  her  sons  and  cherish  their  memory.  Mine  were  Virave  and 
honorable  men,  and  warm-liearled  and  aiTcrtionate  to  me  and 
each  other,  and  when  all  were  around  me  no  happier  mother 
could  be  found  on  earth.  But  it  is  a  desolate  home  now,  and 
perhaps  may  ever  remain  so. 

I  have  other  children  to  raifc,  and  my  duty  to  them  will  pre- 
vent indulgence  in  useless  repining.  So  if  the  worst  comes,  I 
shall  submit,  with  patience,  to  the  will  of  Heaven,  and  discharge 
the  duty  I  owe  to  others;  Int  if  I  lose  my  dear  boys  life  wUll 


46  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

lose  its  charms  to  me,  though  I  shall  love  my  country  none  the 
less.  On  my  country's  freedom  I  have  set  my  heart,  on  her 
altars  I  have  placed  my  sons  and  my  hopes. 

I  would  not  see  my  children  made  slaves,  or  my  country  sub- 
jugated by  a  hated  foe.  No,  rather  let  their  young  lives  be 
offered  up,  and  their  mother  go  broken  hearted  to  the  grave. 

But  the  arm  of  Goji  is  not  shortened,  that  he  cannot  save 
even  those  in  the  enemy's  hands;  sol  will  still  entertain  some 
hope  for  the  safe  return  of  my  dear  boys.         *         *         *         * 
Your  sister,  M.  L.  WOODSOX. 

Intelligencer^  Aprils  1863;" 


STARTLING  REVELATIONS  BY  A  MISSOURI  AN  WHO  WAS 
TO  HAVE  BEEN  HUNG  BY  THE  YANKEES. 

The  "  Mississippian "  contains  a  letter  written  by  a  soldier 
of  the  Missouri  army,  who  was  captured  and  charged  with 
being  a  spy.  He  had  frequent  interviews  with  the  officers  high 
in  command,  and  so  certain  were  they  of  hanging  him  that  they 
spoke  quite  unreservedly  of  their  intentions  and  feelings  toward 
the  South.     The  following  is  an  extract : 

From  the  point  of  my  capture,  I  made  with  the  entire  Federal 
army  a  march  of  about  one  hundred  miles,  during  which  march 
my  opportunities  and  frequent  conversations  with  some  of  the 
leading  men,  afforded  me  good  grounds  for  knowing  and  judg- 
ing of  the  feelings  and  intentions  of  those  constituting  the 
Western  Department.  And  I  know  to  a  certainty  that  we  must 
work  to  save  ourselves  from  a  worse  fate  than  has  yet  been  felt 
by  any.  The  enemy's  present  design  is  to  re-open  the  Missis- 
sippi river,  and  while  establishing  communication  between  two 
of  the  r  departments,  cut  off  communication  between  two  of 
ours,  thus  leaving  all  the  West  without  arms  and  at  their  mercy, 
and  for  this  purpose  they  will  use  all  the  force  both  here  and 
west  of  the  Mississippi.  And  even  now.  they  are  niassing 
rapidly  at  the  principle  points  by  Nashville,  Corinth,  Memphis, 
Helena,  and  Columbus,  Kentucky.  Further  it  was  asserted  to 
me  by  reliable  (or  at  least  influential)  men  as  Gen.  Rosecrans 
and  McCook,  that  if  they  ever  came  South  again  they  would 
not  leave  a  house  or  field,  man,  woman,  child  or  dog.  So  let  us 
at  once  prepare,  for  we  will  have  work  to  do  this  winter ;  let 
one  and  all  throw  aside  all  idea  that  there  is  to  be  anything 
hoped  for  from  foreign  powers  or  Democratic  victories,  or  any 
other  Yankee  humbug. 


THE  TEN  MISSOURI  MURDERS. 

The  ten  Confederate  soldiers  whom  the  Abolition  brute,  Mc- 
Neill, lately  murdered  in  Missouri,  were  not  executed  for  killing 


SECOJTD  AMERICAN  REVOLDTION.  4:( 

an  enemy.  It  seems  that  a  man  was  missing  from  the  neighbor- 
hood of  the  ten,  and  they  were  held  responsible  for  his  safety, 
and  ordered  to  have  him  forthcoming  within  a  fixed  time,  under 
the  penalty  of  death.  The  time  passed,  and  they  were  slain. 
It  now  turns  out  that  the  day  after  the  murder  the  missing  man 
returned  to  hi'^  home.  He  had  not  been  molested,  and  was 
absent  on  business  which  he  did  not  desire  to  communicate  to 
his  friends.  This  statement  is  made  on  the  authority  of  a  St. 
Louis  paper.  The  crime  in  the  case  is  made  more  terrible  by 
this  statement; 


ATROCIOUS  MURDER  BY  YANKEES  IN  MISSOURI. 

The  Little  Rock  (Arkansas)  "  Democrat,  "  publishes  the  fol- 
lowing : 

Van  Burex,  August  20,  1862. 

R.  II.  JoHNSox,  Esq. — Dear  Sir :  The  enclosed  letter  from 
Mrs.  Dunn  to  her  husband's  brother,  informing  him  of  the  mur- 
der of  her  husband  by  a  party  of  Missouri  militia,  you  will  find 
of  sufficient  interest  for  publication.  William  and  James  II. 
Dunn  were  beef  contractors  in  Price's  army  and  gentlemen  of 
hifjh  standing. 

Respectfully,  yours,  WM.  WALKER. 

Junk  25th,  1862. 

To  Mr.  J.  H.  DuNX — Dear  Brother :  I  have  bad  news  to 
communicate  to  you.  Poor  William  came  home  Saturday  eve- 
ning— Johnson  and  Clay  were  here  when  he  came  home.  He 
had  not  been  here  more  than  a  half  hour  when  he  went  to  put 
away  his  horse — Johnson  and  Clay  went  with  him.  He  had  just 
got  his  saddle  off,  when  forty  or  fifty  of  the  State  miliiia  came 
ffalloping  up,  and  were  at  the  barn  gate  before  they  saw  them. 
William  and  Clay  ran  into  the  orchard,  and  William  lay  down 
behind  the  bushes  by  the  fence ;  they  followed  an<l  took  Clay 
prisoner ;  they  fired  at  Willium  twice,  but  missed  him ;  he  then 
raised  up,  came  out  and  told  them  to  take  him.  They  ques- 
tioned him  about  what  he  had  been  doing  and  he  told  them  he 
had  just  come  home  from  ColTee's  camp — they  said  he  had  come 
to  get  news  for  Coffee,  and  they  would  kill  him.  They  took 
him  oyer  the  orchard  and  pasture  fences  through  the  woods  to 
hunt  Johnson  and  his  horse,  which,  of  course,  he  knew  nothing 
about,  but  they  got  his  horse.  They  then  brought  William 
around  to  the  south  gate.  He  asked  them  if  he  might  come  to 
the  house  to  see  his  wife  and  children,  but  they  cursed  him  and 
told  him  no,  so  he  called  me  out  there  and  whispered  to  me  to 
.  go  to  the  house  and  empty  the  pockets  of  his  coat  and  bring  it 
to  him  ;  I  did  so,  and  then  he  told  me,  "  Annie  these  men  are 
going  to  kill  me,  I  must  bid  you  good  bye,  I  want  you  to  take 
care  of  the  children,  and  do  the  best  you  can;  Jim  will  hel[> 


48  TnE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

you  raise  my  children."  He  then  asked  me  to  bring  Frank  to 
see  him,  the  Lieutenant  told  him  to  hurry,  I  went  to  the  house 
to  get  Frank  who  was  asleep  and  had  not  yet  seen  his  father 
since  he  came  home.  The  Lieutenant  called  William  out  across 
the  road  and  told  him  he  should  shoot  him  there  and  to  get 
through  his  talk  quick.  William  came  back  and  told  mother 
and  me  that  they  were  going  to  kill  him  right  there,  but  mother 
and  I  threw  ourselves  on  him  and  told  them  they  must  kill  ua 
first.  They  ordered  us  off  or  they  would  shoot  us,  and  I  think 
they  would  have  shot  us  ;  they  then  told  William  to  get  on  his 
horse,  he  did  so,  and  took  Frank  to  his  arms  and  bid  him  good 
bye,  that  those  men  were  going  to  kill  his  father.  Frank  cried 
and  screamed,  and  said,  men  don't  kill  my  pa !  and  I  told  them 
to  look  at  those  two  little  helpless  children  and  then  tell  me  if 
they  could  have  the  heart  to  kill  my  husband,  but  they  only 
cursed  and  mocked  us ;  but  told  us  they  would  not  hurt  him, 
only  take  him  with  them.  So  they  started  down  the  country 
road  towards  Fidelity ;  then  after  going  about  a  quarter  of  a 
mile  they  stopped,  (so  Clay  says)  made  him  get  off  his  horse, 
and  took  him  through  the  woods  down  a  hollow  to  the  left  hand 
and  there  by  a  big  tree  shot  him  with  six  balls.  We  heard  the 
firing  and  followed — I  found  him  on  his  knee ;  with  his  poor 
face  in  a  pool  of  blood  ;  I  called  him  and  thought  he  answered, 
but  no,  his  lips  were  sealed  in  death.  He  was  shot  twice  in  the 
head,  three  times  in  the  left  arm  and  once  in  the  left  side.  We 
laid  him  to  rest  by  his  father's  side  in  the  grave  yard,  at  the 
meeting  house.  He  looked  very  natural — he  must  have  died 
instantly,  Jimmy  try  to  bear  it  the  best  you  can,  it  is  a  severe 
affliction  to  us  all.  I  don't  want  you  to  come  home,  stay  away 
until  you  know  it  is  safe  to  come,  or  yoxi  may  share  the  same 
fate.  Mother  says  she  wants  us  to  be  together  now,  there  are 
so  few  of  us ;  but  she  is  afraid  to  go  south  at  this  season  of  the 
year.     Whas  do  you  think  it  advisable  for  us  to  do  ? 

The  same  crowd  of  State  militia  under  Lieut.  Lefevre,  passed 
here  yesterday  (Monday)  going  back  to  Mount  Vernon.  The 
Union  men,  Andy  Foster,  the  Motley's  Willoughbys,  Smiths 
and  Oliver,  that  came  in  with  the  State  militia  Saturday  as  soon 
as  they  heard  what  had  happened,  that  night  without  waiting  to 
cut  their  wheat,  they  were  afraid  to  stay.  Jimmy,  on  no  account 
attempt  to  come  home,  but  as  soon  as  you  think  it  best,  we  will 
come  to  you,  if  we  are  spared. 

Clay  says,  after  they  had  killed  him.  Lieutenant  Lefevre  rode 
among  his  men  asking  who  would  have  his  hat ;  none  would 
take  it,  so  he  threw  it  and  his  coat  to  Clay,  and  told  him  damn 
him,  take  them  and  go  take  care  of  that  man.  We  met  Clay 
bringing  his  hat  and  coat,  and  he  turned  back  with  us  to  search 
for  William.  • 

I  want  yoH  to  let  the  Southern  men  read  of  this  cold  blooded 


8E(X)ND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  49 

murder.     We  are  going  to  try  and  get  Mr.  May  to  go  and  see 
you.  From  your  aftiicted  sister-in-law, 

ANNIE  C.  DUNN. 

INCIDENTS  OF  THE  BATTLE  OF  FREDERICKSBURO-THE 
PEOPLE  OF  THE  TOWN  WHO  REMAINED-THE  WOMEN. 

The  Yankee  Generals  were  almost  thunderstruck  at  finding  so 
many  persons  through  a  shelling  lasting  twelve  hours,  and  car- 
ried on  without  intermission,  with  one  hundred  and  forty-three 
guns.  G"n.  Sturgis  told  a  lady  that  the  -^roraen  of  Fredericks- 
burg ought  to  be  handed  down  to  the  latest  posterity  as  model 
heroines.  He  then  said  to  the  same  lady — "madam,  it  is  too 
dangerous  for  you  to  remain  longer,  General  Lee  will  shell  the 
town  ;  go  over  to  the  other  side,  I  will  insure  you  protection 
and  a  return  whenever  you  choose  to  come  back."  The  lady's 
reply  wa'^  quite  signifii-ant — "Xo  sir,"  said  she,  **' I  have  no 
more  business  across  that  river  than  a  Yankee  has  in  Heaven  ;  I 
shall  stay  and  take  the  best  care  I  can  of  my  property."  lie 
then  asked  if  slie  had  a  luisband  in  the  Southern  army.  "No, 
sir,  I  have  a  son  ;  but  if  my  liusl)and  does  not  now  enlist  and 
avenire  the  v.-uid.ilism  you  have  committed  on  my  town  and  its 
people,  I  shall  get  a  divorce."  Said  Sturgis,  "I  admire  your 
pluck,  madam,  and  from  this  time  forward,  as>  long  as  I  remain, 
you  shall  be  protected." 

In  another  instance,  a  gentleman  had  been  arrested,  and  was 
being  carried  before  an  officer,  when  his  daughter,  one  of  .he 
most  beautiful  and  accomplished  girls  in  the  city,  seized  an  old 
Bwoid  lying  near,  and  following  the  guard,  who  was  conducting 
her  father,  and  who  was  abusing  him,  bade  him  desist,  threaten- 
ing him  Avith  instant  death  if  he  should  harm  her  father, 
accompanied  him  to  the  presence  of  the  officer,  when  both  were 
released.  A  Yankee  officer  who  witnessed  this  scene  said  he 
would  rather  tight  the  best  regiment  of  the  South  than  encoun- 
ter the  Avomen  of  Fredericksburg. 

THE  FIDELITY  OF  THE  SLAVES. 

One  of  the  most  gratifying  of  the  many  interesting  incidents 
of  the  occupation  of  Fredericksburg  was  the  faithful  conduct 
of  the  slaves  who  remained.  In  several  instances  they  saved, 
amid  the  perfect  rain  of  shot  and  shell,  houses  and  indeed 
squares  from  destruction.  In  other  instances,  they  claimed  and 
secured  protection  for  the  property  of  their  owners,  wfiilst  in 
not  a  few  instances  they  asked  to  be  permitted  to  share  the 
plunder  with  the  thieving  soldiery,  and  getting  the  permission, 
took  care  to  save  for  those  who  had  left,  many  valuable  article/?. 

YANKEE  LETTERS WHAT  THEY  SAY. 

I  have  been  permitted  to  read  or  rather  to  glance  at  a  large 
number  of  letters  written  by  the  home  people  to  their  friends 
in  the  field. 

4 


tjO  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

Tliey  all  complain  of  the  great  scarcity  of  labor,  representing 
that  the  crops  in  many  instances,  could  not  be  harvested  for  the 
want  of  it.  They  express  strong  hopes  of  speedy  peace,  and 
say  that  it  is  folly  to  expect  ever  to  raise  another  army  in  the 
North.  One  girl  says  she  dispairs  of  ever  getting  a  husband, 
as  there  is  not  a  decent,  marriageable  man  within  twenty  miles 
of  her. 

MORE  VANDALISM. 

The  Yankees  have  committed  so  many  abominable  wicked- 
nesses, that  it  will  hardly  be  cfedited  Avheu  it  is  told  that  they 
destroyed  the  Masonic  regalia,  carried  ofi"  the  charters  of  the 
lodges,  and  actually  burnt  some  of  the  Bibles  found  in  private 
houses  and  churches.  As  one  of  the  ricses  resorted  to  in  facili- 
tating their  thieving  operations,  they  would  go  to  the  houses 
which  were  tenanted,  arrest  its  occupants,  and  carry  them 
across  the  river.  Whilst  this  was  going  on,  another  party 
would  enter  the  houses,  bearing  off  and  destroying  whatever 
they  might  find. 

POISONED  BULLETS. 

I  have  seen,  to-day  some  of  these  horrid  looking  messengers. 
They  are  made  in  three  parts,  and  so  constructed  that  upon  en- 
tering the  body,  the  head  separates  from  the  rest  of  the  bullet, 
which  is  drawn  forward,  the  hindmost  part  remaining  at  the 
point  of  entrance,  and  causing  the  wound  to  fester,  and  as  a  sure 
consequence,  it  is  said,  death  must  ensue. 

C orres2)ondence  of  the  Bichmond  Enquirer. 


A  CONFEDERATE  ALPHABET. 

A  is  for  Anderson,  foremost  and  least, 
B  is  for  Bethel,  or  Butler  the  Beast; 
C  is  for  Chase  and  also  for  Cheat, 
D  is  for  Darkies,  Disaster,  Defeat ; 
E  is  for  Eagle,  transformed  to  a  crow, 
F  is  the  Flag  spreading  ruin  and  woe  \ 
.  G  is  for  Gibbet  on  which  we  will  hang, 
Hanter  the  Hound  and  all  of  hi,  gang; 
I  is  the  infamy  of  which  they  are  proud, 
J  Johnson  the  Jackall,  the  Wf -rst  of  the  crowd ; 
K  is  the  Kalendar  of  accidents  dire, 
L  is  for  Lincoln  the  Long  Legged  Liar ; 
W&  for  McClellan  who  Richmond  Vvould  see, 
N  is  for  Never,  when  his  it  shall  be ; 
O  shows  what  Yankees  will  make  by  the  war, 
Q  is  lor  Query,  "  what  is  it  all  for  ?" 
P,  which  was  passed,  stands  for  Puppy  and  Pope, 
R  is  for  Eosecrans,  Rascal  and  Rope; 


SECOND  AMEEICAN  KEVOLDTION.  51 

S  stands  for  Seward,  well  surnamed  the  Snake, 
T,  the  three  months,  the  Rebellion  will  take ; 
U's  for  the  Union  of  all  that  is  base, 

Y  for  the  Victories  that  never  took  place ; 
W  for  Winfield,  whose  victories  groat, 
Xerxes-like  ended  in  shameful  defeat ; 

Y  stands  for  Yankees  that  self-esteemed  natiou, 
Z  id  for  Zero,  their  true  valuation. 

Chattanoofjia  Rebel, 


NORTHERN  VIRTUE 

The.  PetersbuvGc  "  Express,"  after  givinsj  specimens  from  a 
Yankee  love  letter  picked  up  on  a  battle  field,  says .: 

Of  all  the  Yankee  letters  we  have  read  since  the  commence- 
ment of  this  war,  whether  written  by  maidens,  wives,  husbands 
or  lovers,  we  have  not  yet  seen  one  that  would  bear  a  virtuoiLs 
criticism.  They  are  filled  with  such  obscene  reference  and  de- 
praved avowals,  that  a  virtuous  man  or  woman  must  blush  in 
reading  tliem,  to  think  of  the  nature  of  the  people  in  whom  we 
have  so  long  associated  on  equal  terms. 


UNION  SENTIMENT  IN  NEW  ORLEANS. 

A  Yankee  letter- wi-iter  gives  the  following  illustrations  ot 
the  presence  of  a  Union  sentiment  in  New  Orleans  city,  in 
which  the  Northern  papers  have  been  indulging  so  largely  : 

"  The  Union  feeling  existing  there — that  they  talk  so  much 
about — does  not  exist ;  for  Butler  says  that  even  the  women 
and  children  are  the  '  d — d'st  rebels '  he  ever  saw,  and  there  has 
been  but  little  Union  feeling  displayed  where  there  was  nothing 
to  be  gained.  Self-interest  has  been  the  parent  of  all  Union 
feeling  exhibited  there ;  of  this  I  feel  certaiii.  To  demonstrate 
this  fact,  let  me  relate  an  incident  which  I  know  to  be  authentic. 

A  Mrs. ,  whose  husband  has  come  out  strong  on  the 

Union  subject,  knowing  that  in  the  public  schools  there  would 
be  many  opportunities  for  those  who  would  hurrah  for  the  stars 
and  stripes,  aijd  desiring  to  obtain  the  principalship  of  one  of 
the  girls'  high  schools,  called  upon  Gen.  Butler,  accompanied  by 
a  '  secesh '  lady,  who  was  anxious  to  see  the  brute  without  hav- 
ing any  buainesa  herself  to  take  here  there.     Mrs. ,  after 

eomplimentiug  Butler  highly  upon  the  condition  of  the  streets, 
and  the  city  gcncr.ally,  .ind  expressing  her  devoted  allegiance 
to  the  old  tiag,  stated  lh:it  she  called,  nctuatod  solaly  by  the 
promptings  of  her  heart,  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance.  Butler 
allowed  her  to  get  that  far,  and  no  farther.  '  Get  out,  madam  I 
get  out !  don't  say  another  word.  I  have  never  seen  the  womao 
in  the  South  yet  who  would  take  the  oath  of  allegiance,  or  even 
hear  of  it,  unles.s  they  had  an  object  to  gain  in  it.    They  are 


52  THE  "WOMEN  OF  THE 

the  damndest  rebels  in  the  whole  Confederacy  of  rebels.  Get 
out  madam ;  you  want  some  favor  under  me ;  go.'  And  out 
she'  had  to  go.  The  secesh  lady  couldn't  keep  it,  you  may  be 
sure;  and  it  was  no  time  before  the  story  was  out.  Another 
incident:  While  cur  vessel  way  lying  at  the  pickets,  the  Yan- 
kee sentinels  picked  up  a  little  boy  of  about  six  years,  who  was 
playing  near  them,  and  tried  to  induce  him  to  hurrah  for  Lin- 
coln. *'  I  won't.'  '  Hurrah,  and  I'll  give  you  something.'  '  I 
won't.'  Catching  him  up,  and  suspending  the  little  fellow  over 
the  canal,  they  said :  '  Hurrah  f©r  Lincoln,  or  we'll  drop  you  in.' 
'Drop  und  be  damned,'  said  the  little  rebel;  and,  with  a  shout, 
they  set  him  down,  saying  he  was  rebel  pluck  to  the  backbone. 
These  two  instances  that  I  know  of,  are  pretty  fair  specimens  of 
the  Union  teeling  there." 


THE  GREATEST  BATTLE. 

The  more  wc  viow  it  and  familiarize  ourselves  with  its  details, 
the  more  clearly  the  fact  stands  out  that  the  battle  <»f  Sharps- 
burg,  or  Antietam,  was,  on  our  part,  the  greatest  engagement 
of  modern  tmies.  Our  correspondent's  declaration,  ihat  we 
fought  40,000  against  a  force  of  125,000,  is  sustained  by  Gen. 
Lee  in  his  address  to  the  army.  Tliat  so  small  a  force,  ragged, 
bare-foot,  half-starved  and  worn  down  by  a  lung  series  of  batiles 
and  severe  marches,  should  have  proved  a  lull  match  for  three 
times  their  number  of  fresh  and  well  disciplined  Yankees,  is  in- 
deed a  marvel.  History  will  so  record  it,  and  it  will  stand  out 
for  all  time  as  incontestible  proof  of  our  superiority  over  the 
North  in  all  that  goes  to  make  up  a  brave  and  warlike  people. 

And  again  :  the  fact  that  our  army  has  remained  for  weeks 
within  a  few  miles  of  McClellan,  without  his  venturing  to  attack 
us,  is  evidence  that  his  forces  were  f,o  badly  crippled  in  the 
fight  that  they  have  been  totally  imable  to  renew  it. 

/Savannah  Mepuhlican. 


QE3J.  LEES  ADDRESS  TO  HIS  ABJIY. 

General  Lee  has  issued  the  following  address  to  his  soldiers. 
He  recounts  their  achievements  with  eloquence,  and  delivers  to 
them  the  thanks  of  the  President,  and  bestows,  in  feeling  terms, 
the  praise  they  have  so  well  earned  : 

Headquaetees  Army  of  Xoetheen-  Vieginia,  ) 

October  2,  1862.      \ 

General  Orders,  Ko.  116. 

In  reviewing  the  achievements  of  the  Army  during  the  pre- 
sent campaign,  the  Commanding  General  cannot  withhold  the 
expression  of  his  admiration  of  the  indomitable  courage  it  has 


SECOND  AilEKICAN  REVOLUTION.  53 

displayed  in  battle,  and  its  cheerful  endurance  of  privation  and 
hardship  on  the  march. 

Since  your  great  victories  around  Richmond  you  have  de- 
feated the  enemy  at  Cedar  mountain,  expelled  him  from  the 
Kappahannock,  and,  after  a  conflict  of  .three  days,  utterly  re- 
pulsed him  on  the  Plains  of  Manassas,  and  forced  him  to  take 
shelter  within  the  fortifications  around  the  capital. 

Without  halting  for  repose  you  crossed  the  Potomac,  stormed 
the  heights  of  Harper's  Ferry,  made  prisoners  of  more  than 
eleven  thousand  men,  and  captured  upwards  of  seventy  pieces 
of  artillery,  all  their  small  arms  and  other  munitions  of  war. 

While  one  corps  of  the  army  was  thus  engaged,  the  other 
insured  its  success  by  arresting  at  Boonsboro'  the  combined 
armies  of  the  enemy,  advancinc;  untler  their  favorite  general,  to 
the  relief  of  their  beleagdercd  conirades. 

On  the  field  of  Sharpsburg,  with  less  than  one-third  his  num- 
ber, you  resisted,  from  daylight  until  dark,  the  whole  army  of 
the  enemy,  and  repulsed  every  attack  along  his  entire  front,  of 
more  than  lour  miles  in  extent. 

The  whole  of  the  following  day  you  stood  prepared  to  resume 
the  conflict  on  the  same  ground,  and  retired  next  morning, 
without  molestation,  across  the  Potomac. 

Two  attempts  subsequently  made  by  the  enemy  to  follow  you 
across  the  river,  have  resulted  in  his  complete  discomfiture,  and 
being  driven  back  with  loss. 

Achievements  such  as  these  demanded  much  valor  and  pa- 
triotism. History  records  few  examples  of  greater  fortitude 
and  endurance  than  this  army  has  exhibited  ;  and  I  am  commis- 
sioned by  the  President  to  thank  you  in  the  name  of  the  Con- 
federate States  for  the  undying  fame  you  have  won  for  their 
arms. 

INIuch  as  you  have  done,  much  more  remains  to  be  accom- 
plished. The  enemy  again  threatens  us  with  invasion,  and  to 
your  tried  valor  and  patriotism, -the  country  looks  with  confi- 
dence for  deliverance  and  safety;  your  past  exploits  give  assu- 
rance that  this  confidence  is  not  mis])laced. 

H.  E.  LEE,  General  Commanding. 


FIR«iT  NAVAL  VICTORY  1^  VIRGINIA-HISTOUY  OF  THE 
MERIMAC  AND  HER  COMMANDER,  ADMIRAL  IFRANK- 
LIN  BUCHANAN. 

This  distinguished  naval  oiBcer  is  a  native  of  the  State  of 
Maryland,  but  for  some  years  resided  in  Pennsylvania,  from 
wliich  State  he  was  appointed  a  midshipman.  He  entered  the 
navy  on  the  28th  of  January,  1815,  and  continued,  in  various 
positions,  until  the  14th  of  September,  1855,  when  he  was  made 
captain.  Buchanan  was  in  the  United  States  naval  service  for 
forty-five  years,  twenty-one  of  which  were  spent  at  sea.     Hia 


54  THE  WOMEN  OF  THK 

last  cruipe,  while  in  the  service  of  that  government,  was  in 
command  of  the  steam  frigate  Susquehanna,  on  the  Japan  Ex- 
pedition in  1855. 

On  the  19th  April,  when  the  Massachusetts  troops  were  at- 
tacked on  their  passage  through  Baltimore  city,  Capt.  Buchanan 
•was  in  command  of  the  navy  yard  at  Washington.  He  imme- 
diately resigned  his  commission,  and,  in  a  short  time  thereafter, 
tendered  his  services  to  the  Southern  Confederacy,  which  were 
promptly  accepted,  and  he  drew  his  sword  in  defence  of  South- 
ern independence.  He  was  assigned  to  duty  as  Chief  of  Orders 
and  Detail,  in  the  Confederate  navy,  then  in  its  infancy,  and  in 
February,  1862,  hoisted  his  flag  at  Norfolk  on  board  the  iron- 
clad frigate  Virginia,  such,  being  the  name  given  by  the 
Confederate  Navy  Department  to  the  United  States  frigate 
Merrimac,  partially  burnt  and  sunk  by  Commodore  Paulding,, 
when  the  Federal  forces  evacuated  the  Norfolk  navy  yard  on 
the  secession  of  Virginia,  and  on  Saturday,  the  8th  of  Mai'ch, 
1862,  engaged  the  enemy  off  Newport's  News.  It  may  not  be 
uninteresting  to  the  readers  of  our  paper  to  give  here  a  short 
description  of  this  the  greatest  naval  engagement  that  ever  took 
place  in  American  waters. 

The  Virginia  had  been  cut  loose  from  her  moorings,  and  was 
on  her  way  down  the  harbor,  when  Commodore  Buchanan,  call- 
ing "all  hands  to  muster,"  delivered  the  following  brief,  but 
spirited  address  to  the  crew  : 

"Men,  the  eyes  of  your  country  are  upon  you.  You  are 
fighting  for  your  rights — your  liberties — your  wives  and  chil- 
dren. You  must  not  be  content  with  only  doing  your  duty; 
but  do  more  than  your  duty !  Those  ships  (pointing  to  the 
Yankee  vessels)  must  be  taken,  and  you  shall  not  complain  that 
I  do  not  take  you  close  enough.     Go  to  your  guns !" 

How  well  the  officers  and  the  gallant  crew  of  that  "monster 
of  the  deep"  performed  their  whole  duty,  we  let  an  eye-witness- 
of  that  memorable  engagement  tell : 

"The  morning  was  still  as  that  of  a  Sabbath.  The  two  Yan- 
kee frigates  lay  with  their  boats  at  the  boom,  and  wash-clothes 
in  the  rigging.  Did  they  see  the  long,  dark  hull?  Had  they 
made  her  out?  Was  it  ignorance,  apathy,  or  composure? 
These  wei*e  the  questions  we  discussed  as  we  steamed  across^ 
the  flats  to  the  south  of  the  frigates  with  the  two  gallant  little 
gunboats  well  on  our  starboard  beam  heading  up  for  the  enemy.. 
Our  doubts  were  solved  by  the  heavy  boom  of  a  gun  from  be- 
yond Sewell's  Point.  The  reverberation  rolled  across  the  sun-lit. 
water  and  died  away,  but  still  the  clothes  hung  in  the  rigging, 
Ktill  the  boats  lay  at  the  booms.  Another  gun  (21  minutes  past 
1)  broke  on  the  air,  and  a  tug  started  from  Newport's  News,, 
while  at  the  same  time  two  others  left  Old  Point,  taking  the- 
channel  inside  Hampton  bar.  Steadily,  with  a  grim  and  ominous 
silence,  the  Virginia  glides  through  the  Water,  steadily  and 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  55 

with  defiant  valor  the  Beaufort  and  Raleigh  followed  where  <»he 
led.  At  ten  minutes  to  two,  a  rifle  gun  from  one  of  these  little 
vessels  rang  out,  then  a  white  puff  from  her  consort.  Still  the 
clothes  in  the  rigging,  still  the  boats  at  the  boom?  Was  this 
confidence  ?  It  could  not  be  ignorance.  Did  it  mean  torpedoes, 
submarine  batteries,  infernal  machines?  The  gunboats  have 
fired  again,  aitd  lo  !  here  away  to  the  eastward  were  the  Roanoke 
and  Minnesota  rising  like  prodigious  castles  above  the  p'acid 
water,  the  first  under  steam,  the  second  in  tow.  Other  pufts  of 
smoke,  other  sharp  reports  from  the  gunboats,  but  the  Virginia 
goes  ou  steadily,  silently  to  do  her  work.  Now  the  in-shore 
frigate,  the  Cumberland,  fires  ;  now  the  Virginia  close  aboard  ; 
now  Sewell's  Point  battery;  now  the  Minnesota;  now  the 
Roanoke;  now  the  air  trembles  with  the  cannonade.  Now  the 
Virginia  delivers  both  broadsides ;  now  she  runs  full  against 
the  Cumberland's  starboard  bow  ;  now  the  smoke  clears  away, 
and  she  appears  heading  up  James  River.  This  at  twenty-two 
minutes  to  two.  The  Congress  now  lets  fall  foretopsail,  and 
then  the  main,  and  so  with  a  tug  along-side,  starts  down  the 
north  channel,  where  the  Minnesota  has  jjrounded,  and  pre- 
sently runs  plump  ashore.  Meanwhile  the  Virginia  opens  fire 
upon  the  Yankee  fort,  slowly  she  steams  back,  and  the  Cumber- 
land, sunk  now  to  her  white-streak,  opens  upon  her  again.  A 
gallant  man  fought  that  ship — a  man  worthy  to  have  maintained 
a  better  cause.  Gun  after  gun  he  tired,  lower  and  low^r  sunk 
his  ship,  his  last  discharge  comes  from  his  pivot  gun,  the  ship 
lurches  to  starboard,  now  to  port,  his  flag  streams  out  wildly, 
and  now  the  Cumberland  goes  down  on  her  beamends,  at  once 
a  monument  and  an  epitaph  of  the  gallant  man  who  lought  her. 
The  Virginia  stops.  Is  she  aground?  And  the  gunboat? 
Raleigh  and  Beaufort!  glorious  Parker!  glorious  Alexander! 
there  they  are  on  the  quarters  of  the  Congress  hammering  away, 
and  creeping  up  closer  and  closer  all  the  time.  At  ten  minutes 
to  four  the  Congress  struck.  Parker  hauled  down  the  ensign, 
run  up  his  own  battle-flag  in  its  place,  there  the  heroic  Taylor, 
who  lought  the  Fanny  at  Roanoke  Inland  and  Elizabeth  City,- 
got  his  \N  ound — there  the  gallant  young  Hutttr  fell,  all  shot  by 
the  dastards  who  fired  from  the  ship  and  shore  when  the  white 
flag  was  fl>ing  at  the  main  and  mizen  of  the  Congress ! 

"Here  too,  and  in  the  same  way.  Flag  Ofliccr  Buchanan,  and 
Flag  Lieut.  R.  I).  Minor,  were  wounded.  Now  the  James 
River  gunboats,  whose  dark  smoke  had  been  seen  against  the 
blue  distance  ever  since  3  o'clock,  came  dashing  along  past  the 
shore  batteries.  Tucker,  the  courtly  and  chivalrous,  leading  the 
van,  with  the  Jamestown,  Liout.  Commanding  JJarney,  close 
aboard,  and  the  little  Teaser,  Lieut.  Webb,  in  her  wake — like  a 
bow-lei'ged  bull  dojj  in  chase  of  the  long,  lean,  stag-hound.  It 
was  a  gallant  dash,  and  once  pa«t  the  balterie«,  the  two  heavy 
vessels  took  position  in  line  of  battle,  while  the  Teaser  dashed 


56  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

at  the  Minnesota,  looking  no  larger  than  a  cock  boat.  And 
right  well  she  maintained  the  honor  of  her  flag  and  the  appro- 
pna  encss  of"  her  name.  Now  the  Roanoke  puts  her  helm  up 
and  declines  the  battle.  Now  the  Virginia  is  thundering  away 
again.  The  Teaser  is  still  closer  in.  We  are  closer  in — sizz 
comes  a  shell  ahead,  presently  another  astern,  finally  a  thiid 
with  a  clear,  sharp  whizz,  just  over  head,  to  the  great  delight 
of  the  Commodore,  who  appreciated  the  compliment  of  these 
good  shots,  which  were  the  last  of  six  shots  directed  at  the 
Harmony.  Now  the  schooner  Reindeer  comes  foaming  along, 
cut  out  from  under  the  shore  batteries  ;  she  reports,  and  is  sent 
up  in  charge  of  acting  Master  Gibbs. 

"And  next  the  gallant  Beaufort  runs  down.  Parker  steps 
and  brings  on  board  the  great  piece  of  bunting  we  saw  hauled 
down  just  now.  He  brings  also  some  thirty  prisoners  and 
some  wounded  men — men  wounded  under  that  white  flag  yon- 
der desecrated  by  the  Yankees.  One  of  these  lies  stretched 
out,  decently  coAcred  over,  gasping  out  his  life  on  the  deck — a 
Yankee  shot  through  the  head,  all  bloody  and  ghastly,  killed  by 
the  inhuman  fire  of  his  own  people.  Another  pale  and  stern^ 
the  Captain  of  the  Beaufort's  gun,  lies  J,here  too,  a  noble  speci- 
men of  a  man  who  has  since  gone  where  the  weary  are  at  rest. 
A  gallant  man,  a  brave  seaman ! 

"We  shake  hands  with  Parker;  he  gets  back  to  his  vessel 
slightly  wounded,  as  is  Alexander,  and  steams  back  gallantly  to 
the  fight.  The  Patrick  Henry,  the  Jamestown,  the  Teaser,  the 
Beaufort,  the  Raleigh,  and  the  grand  old  Virginia,  are  all  thun- 
dering away.  We  steam  down  and  speak  the  first.  We  hear 
a  report  of  casualties,  we  shake  hands  with  friends,  we  shove 
oflT,  cheer  and  steam  towards  the  Swash  Channel.  Presently 
through  the  thickening  gloom  we  see  a  red  glare,  it  grows 
larger,  and  brighter,  and  redder.  It  creeps  higher  and  higher, 
and  now  gun  after  gun  booming  on  the  still  night  as  the  fire 
reaches  them,  the  batteries  of  tlie  Congress  are  discliarged 
across  the  water  in  harmless  thunder.  It  was  a  grand  sight  to 
see,  and  by  the  light  of  the  burning  ship,  we  made  onv  way 
back  to  Norlolk,  »  At  half  past  eleven  the  act  of  retribution  was 
complete,  for  aUthat  hour,  with  a  great  noise,  she  blew  uj)." 

When  Commodore  Buchanan  was  wounded  and  taken  below, 
a  feeling  of  deep  sadness  pervaded  the  entire  crew,  but  they 
soon  rallied  when  Flag  Lieutenant  Minor,  himself  wounded  and 
sent  below,  appeared  on  deck  and  delivered  to  them  the  follow- 
ing message  from  the  noble  flag  oflice : 

"Tell  Mr,  Jones  to  fight  the  ship  to  the  last — tell  the  men 
that  I  am  not  mortally  wounded  and  hope  to  be  with  them  again 
very  soon." 

The  cheers  that  greeted  the  delivery  of  this  message  re- 
sounded tar  above  the  cannon's  roar,  and  every  man  was  again 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLmON.  57 

quickly  at  his  post,  dealing  death  and  destruction  with  their 
heavy  guns. 

Congress  was  in  session  when  the  ensfageraent  took  place  and 
shortly  thereafter  passed  a  bill  creating  the  grade  of  Admiral  in 
the  navy,  to  which  position  Buchanan  was  nominated  by  the 
President  and  confirmed  by  the  Senate. 

The  news  of  the  great  naval  victory  fled  over  the  country 
with  electric  speed,  and  was  received  with  wonder  and  as- 
tonishment by  the  }»eoplc  of  the  South,  who  regarded  it  as  the 
turning  point  in  our  fortunes,  then  under  a  cloud  from  recent 
disasters  to  our  arms  at  Donaldson  and  other  places. 
England  and  France,  with  all  their  powerful  resources,  for  two 
years  had  been  endeavoring  to  solve  the  problem  of  iron-clad 
ships,  but  it  remained  for  the  Southern  Confederacy,  the 
youngest  sister  in  the  family  of  nations,  to  demonstrate  conclu- 
sively, by  actual  trial  in  battle,  their  great  efficiency,  and  thus 
to  radically  revolutionize  the  old  system  of  naval  warfare,  a  fact 
still  more  wonderful  when  we  consider  that  the  Virginia  was 
cut  down,  mailed,  armed,  manned  and  fought  with  unprece- 
dented success,  all  within  the  brief  space  of  six  months,  by  a 
people  heretofore  entirely  dependent  upon  the  Yankee  States 
for  all  commercial  advant  icres. — Illustrated  I^^eios. 


THE     FIRST    NAVAL    VICTORY    OS    THE    MISSISSIPPI 
RIVER,  BY  GEN.  JEFF.  THOMPSON. 

Ueador,  you  have  before  you  an  account  of  the  exploits  of 
the  gallant  and  dashing  Thompson,  one  of  the  heroes  of  this 
war,  who  shines  with  the  notable  refulgence  pertaining  to  each 
raeml)er  of  that  cherished  constellation  to  which  we  trust  we 
look  in  the  darkest  hour  of  the  nation's  adversity — a  con- 
stellation we  may  term  the  Orion  of  our  national  hrniaraent, 
which  with  nerve  firm  strung  and  eye  unblanched  at  the  fierce 
menace  of  the  foe,  advances  and  takes  the  Yankee  bull  by  the 
horns.  The  stars  in  this  constellation  are  household  words. 
The  little  children  are  familiar  with  the  name  of  Ashby,  Stuart, 
Morgan,  Forrest  and  Jeff.  Thompson. 

He  is  not  very  handsome,  but,  then,  his  handsome  deeds 
make  amends  for  what  he  lacks  in  personal  beauty.  An  English 
jockey  would  pro)i<>unce  him  "a  rum  un  to  look  at,  but  a  good 
un  to  go,"  as  in  truth  he  is.  That  thin  face  has  none  of  the 
hatchet  about  it,  but  a  great  deal  of  the  tomahawk.  His  eye 
does  not  gleam  with  sheet-lightning,  l»ut  give^>  forth  a  forked 
flash  whf.n  much  excited.  A  lVien<l  wh<>  is  acqu.ainted  with  his 
great  powers  of  physical  endurance  thinks  he  is  made  u]»  of 
■"cat-gut  and  steel-tilings."  His  address  is  easy  and  graceful, 
his  manner  genial  and  earnes*.,  and  his  utterance  as  rapid  as 
volU-ys  of  musketry,  though  clear  and  distinct. 


58  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

He  was  born  on  the  26th  of  January,  1826,  at  Harper's  Ferry, 
Virginia.  His  father,  Meriwether  Thompson,  was  born  in 
Hanover  county,  and  his  mother,  Maitha  Slaughter  Broadus, 
was  born  in  Culpeper  county.  He  was  intended  and  educated 
for  the  army,  and  from  his  early  youth  has  manifested  a  strong 
passion  for  the -profession  of  arms.  Through  political  influences 
he  was  not  admitted  to  West  Point,  but  he  understands  the  art 
of  war  none  the  less  thoroughly  on  that  account,  for  the  reason 
that  his  soul  has  always  been  bent  on  the  study  of  warfare  and 
his  spirit  eager  for  the  fray. 

We  find  him  at  the  age  of  17  years  selling  goods  in  Charles- 
town,  Virginia;  afterwards,  in  Shepherdstown,  Virginia;  then 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania;  Baltimore,  Maryland;  and  from 
thence  he  emigrates  to  Missouri,  in  1847.  He  continues  clerk- 
ing until  the  year  1851,  when  the  railroad  system  of  Missouri  is 
inaugurated  and  he  enters  the  service  of  the  Hannibal  and  St. 
Joseph  railroad  compan)^  as  engineer,  and  is  placed  in  charge  of 
the  construction  of  the  first  division.  West.  He  resigns  his 
position  to  survey  public  lands  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska,  and, 
after  finishing  several  contracts,  commences  the  real  estate 
brokerage  business  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  which  business,  in- 
terj)ersed  with  railroad  enterprises,  he  continues  up  to  the 
election  of  Lincoln,  at  which  time  he  is  Mayor  of  the  city  of 
St.  Joseph,  President  of  the  Rose  Port  and  Marysville  railroad, 
Secretary  of  the  St.  Joseph  and  Topeka  railroad,  and  directly 
or  indirectly  connected  with  every  public  enterprise  in  North- 
west Missouri.  A  good  many  irons  for  one  man  to  have  in  the 
fire,  but  we  have  yet  to  learn  that  any  of  them  were  injured 
through  inattention  on  his  part. 

Upon  the  result  of  the  election  being  known,  he  immediately 
quit  all  business  and  attempted  to  arouse  the  people  of  Missouri 
and  other  Border  States  to  their  true  danger,  and  induce  them 
to  take  time  by  the  forelock.  The  first  address  after  the  elec- 
tion, issued  in  a  Border  States,  urging  their  secession,  was,  we 
believe,  from  his  pen.  He  devoted  his  attention  to  the  military 
and  reorganized  a  large  number  of  companies  in  Northwest 
Missouri,  of  which  he  had  been  chief  officer  and  inspector  for 
several  years.  Upon  the  meeting  of  the  Legislature,  he  visited 
Jefferson  City  and  remained  during  the  entire  sessions,  urging 
the  passage  of  the  "  Military  Bill "  and  other  schemes  which 
would  place  Missouri  in  a  state  of  readiness  when  the  storm 
should  bu'  St  upon  her.  The  preparations  had  just  begun,  when 
Blair  and  Lyon  captured  Gen.  Frost's  command  at  Camp  Jack- 
son, St.  Louis. 

The  forces  under  command  of  Gen.  Thompson,  at  St.  Joseph, 
prepared  to  resist  any  attempt  the  Federal  troops  might  make 
toward  them,  but,  by  that  unfortunate  treaty  between  General 
Price  and  Gen.  Harnf  y,  they  were  disbanded.  He  started  to 
Virginia  to  cast  his  fortunes  with  his  native  State,  but  upon 


BECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  59 

arriving  at  Memphis  he  found  Governor  Jackson  had  called  the 
Missourians  into  the  field,  and  he  immediately  returned  to  Mis- 
souri. He  entered  the  State  in  Ripley  county,  and  the  next  day 
was  elected  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  a  battalion.  In  a  week  he 
had  a  regiment,  and  in  two  weeks  thereafter  was  elected  Briga- 
dier General  of  twenty-five  hundred  brave  and  earnest  men. 
This  was  on  the  25lh  day  of  July,  1861,  and  from  that  day  he 
commenced  harrassing  the  enemy,  and  until  December  1st,  there 
was  scarcely  a  day  that  he  did  not  exchange  shots  with  them. 
During  the  month  of  October,  he  fought  at  Pattonsville,  Big 
River  Bridge,  Blackwater  Station,  Frederickstown  and  Bloom- 
ington.  The  months  of  December  and  January  were  spent  at 
New  Madrid,  Missouri,  in  disbanding  the  Missouri  State  Guard, 
:md  reorganizing  the  men  as  Confederate  States  troops ;  yet,  in 
these  two  months,  several  excursions  broke  the  monotony  of 
business.  The  steamboat  Platte  Valley  was  captured,  the  town 
of  Commerce  and  the  steamboat  City  of  Allen  felt  his  presence, 
and  numerous  pickets  and  scouting  parties  around  Bird's  Point 
were  compelled  to  yield  their  overcoats  and  arms  to  his  men. 
He  withdrew  his  men  across  the  swamp  before  the  fall  of  New 
Madrid,  and  when  the  Western  troops  were  ordered  to  join 
Gen.  Beauregard,  at  Corinth,  he  marched  down  the  Crowley 
Ridge  to  Helena,  and  from  tlience  by  boat  Avent  to  Memphis. 
He  here  found  that  the  river  defence  fleet,  known  as  the  "Cot- 
ton-boat Fleet,"  needed  gunners  and  marines,  and  immediately 
volunteered  his  artillery  and  infantry.  They  were  gladly  ac- 
cepted, and  on  the  10th  of  May,  above  Fort  Pillow,  he  gained 
the  first  naval  victory  on  the  Mississippi  river.  There  was  no 
little  chagrin  felt  and  expressed  by  naval  officers,  who  had  been 
so  long  resting  on  their  oars  and  rusting  with  inactivity,  when 
a  land  lubber  from  Western  plains  showed  them  "  some  things 
could  be  done  as  well  as  others."  The  defeat  at  Memphis  might 
have  turned  out  a  victory,  had  he  and  his  men  been  aboard. 

After  the  fall  of  Memphis,  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the 
lines  around  that  city,  and  while  in  the  performance  of  his  duty 
made  ^veral  narrow  escapes  from  being  captured.  From 
thence  he  was  transfeired  to  Pontchatoula,"  Louisiana,  to  watch 
Beast  Butler's  movements. 

The  remoteness  of  th«i  scene  of  action,  on  which  Gen.  Thomp- 
son has  been  engaged  since  the  commencement  of  the  war,  has 
prevented  so  full  an  account  of  his  exploits  being  recorded  in 
the  newspapers  as  of  other  leaders  of  his  class,  whose  advan- 
tures  have  figured  more  conspifuously  in  the  letters  of  army 
correspondents.  Several  battles  have  beon'fotight  in  Missouri 
and  the  Southwest,  besides  skirmishes  without  number,  that 
only  find  a  r<'Cord  in  the  terse  sentences  of  the  official  re}»ort 
filed  away  in  the  war  offire.  When  an  authentic  history  of  the 
Trans-Mississippi  campaigns  shall  be  written,  the  readers,  who 
have  had  but  a  vague  idea  of  facts,  formed  by  a  stray  paragraph, 


^0  THE    WOMEN  OF  THE 

now  and  then,  in  the  daily  press,  will  be  astonished  at  their 
matmitiule,  and  the  hardships  and  severe  labors  of  the  gallant 
men  Avho  have  accomplished  wonders  with  such  insignificant 
means  as  have  been  placed  at  their  disposal.  In  most  of  these 
exploits,  the  subject  of  our  sketch  has  figured  conspicuously 
and  has  won  for  himself  the  entire  confidence  of  the  men  who 
have  followed  him.  With  the  exception  of  Gen.  Price,  there  is, 
perhaps,  no  man  around  whom  the  Missourians  would  more 
enthusiastically  rally  than  Jeff.  Thompson,  if  sent  among  them. 
We  trust,  ere  many  months,  his  sabre  will  flash  on  the  plains  of 
Northern  Missouri,  and  the  echoings  of  his  horn  will  arouse  the 
brave  spirits  of  that  region  as  in  the  early  days  of  the  war,, 
when,  with  his  gallant  little  band,  he  put  his  foot  on  one  of  the 
main  arteries  of  the  enemy  and  defied  his  trained  legions. 

Since  writing  the  above,  we  have  seeti  a  proof-impression  of 
the  engraving  accompanying  this  sketch.  The  artist  has  flat- 
tered the  original  by  making  the  features  more  regular  and  more 
youthful-looking  than  they  really  are.  Lest  any  of  our  young 
lady  readers  shall  fall  in  love  with  the  General,  on  seeing  his- 
picture,  we  take  occasion  to  inform  them  that  he  is  a  married 
man,  with  two  or  three  children. — Illustrated  Hews. 


OFFICIAL   REPORT   OF   THE   NAVAL   ENGAGEMENT   AT 
GALVESTON,  TEXAS. 

Headquarteks  Galveston,  Texas. 
This  morning,  the  1st  January,  at  3  o'clock,  I  attacked  the 
enemy's  fleet  and  garrison  at  this  place,  and  captured  the  latter 
and  the  steamer  Harriet  Lane,  and  two  barges,  and  a  schooner 
of  the  former.  The  rest,  some  four  or  five,  escaped  igno- 
miniously  under  cover  of  a  flag  of  truce.  I  have  about  six 
hundred  prisoners  and  a  large  quantity  of  valuable  stores,  arms, 
etc.  The  Harriet  Lane  is  very  little  injured.  She  was  carried 
by  boarding  from  two  high-pressure  cotton  steamers,  manned 
by  Texas  cavalry  and  artillery.  The  line  troops  were  gallantly  ■ 
commanded  by  Colonel  Green,  of  Sibley's  brigade,  and  the  ships 
and  artillery  by  Major  Leon  Smith,  to  whose  indomitable  energy 
and  heroic  daring  the  country  is  indebted  for  the  successful 
execution  of  a  plan  which  1  had  considered  for  the  destruction 
of  the  enemy's  fleet.  Colonel  Eagby,  of  Sibley's  brigade,  also 
commanded  the  volunteers  from  his  regiment  for  the  naval  ex- 
pedition in  which  every  oflicer  and  every  man  won  for  himself 
imperishable  renown. 

(Signed)  J.  BANKHEAD  MAGRUDER, 

Major  General. 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  61 

INTERPSTING  ORDER  OF  MAJOR  GENERAL  MAGRUDER- 
COMPLIMhNTARY  ACKNOWLEDGMENT  OF  THE  DARIKG 
AND  GALLAHTRY  OF  OFF  CEES  AND  MEN  WHO  VIED 
WITH  EACH  OTHER  IN  THE  GREAT  NAVAL  ENGAGE- 
MENT WITH  THE  BLOCKADING  FLEET  ON  THE  COAST 
OF  TEXAS. 

Headquakters  District  of  Texas, 
New  Mexico  axb  Arizoxa, 
Houston,  Texas,  March  11,  1863. 
General  Orders,  Ko.  45. 

The  Commanding  General,  having  been  prevented  by  various 
circumstances  from  acknowledging  the  services  of  the  brave 
Major  Watkins,  and  the  gallant  officers  aijd  men  under  his  com- 
mand, in  the  recent  victory  at  Sabine  Pass,  takes  this  occasion 
to  return  them  his  official  thanks  for  the  accomplishment  of  a 
purpose  of  great  importance  to  us,  and  their  participation  in  an 
exploit  ahnost  unparalleled  in  tlie  annals, of  warfare.  After 
driving  the  enc'tny's  blockading  squadron  from  our  immediate 
waters,  these  devoted  and  heroic  men,  in  their  frail  l)oats,  pur- 
sued him  hoine  iliiiiy  miles  to  hca,  and  alter  a  tight  of  nearly 
two  hours,  (in  an  element  on  which  he  considered  himself  in- 
vincibK',  c;iptured  a  ship  of  war  of  nine  guns  and  an  armed 
scluioner  of  two  guns,  ot  the  United  States  Navy,  forcing  their 
commanding  officers  to  surrender  at  discretion.  The  perse- 
verance, industry  and  firmness  of  the  commanding  officer.  Major 
Oscar  M.  Watkins,  of  the  Provisional  Army,  were  only  equalled 
by  his  intrepidity,  admirable  coolness,  aqd  skill  in  battle.  En- 
tirely unaccustomed  to  the  sea,  his  devotion  overcame  all  obsta- 
cles, lie  was  ably  and  heroically  seconded  by  Captains  Fowler 
and  Johnson,  respective  commanders  of  the  steamers  l>ell  and 
Uncle  Ben,  by  Captains  Odium,  O'Brien,  Nolen  and  Aycock, 
Lieutenants  Dowling  and  Aiken,  of  the  land  forces,  and  by  the 
eagineers,  pilots,  troops  and  crews  ol  the  expedition. 

The  Commanding  General  takes  pleasure  in  announcing  to 
the  officers  alid  men  of  Texas,  land  and  naval,  that  their  he- 
roic example  has  been  followed  successfully  throughout  the 
Confederacy.  The  echo  of  their  cannon  at  Galveston  and  Sabine 
had  not  died  away'  ere  they  were  taken  up  at  Charleston,  and 
reverbrated  in  glory  along  the  Mississippi. 

His  Excellency,  the  President,  has  addressed  a  letter  of  con- 
gratulation iuid  tiianks  to  the  Commanding  General  and  gallant 
men  of  Texas,  engaged  in  these  noble  enleri)rise8.  Congress 
has  unanimously  passed  a  vote  of  thanks,  in  acknowledgment  of 
their  services.  The  whole  country  has  been  electrified  by  the 
daring  and  skill  of  Tcxans,  while  the  hearts  of  their  comrades, 
batthng  in  the  North  lor  their  homes  and  altars,  have  been 
made  to  beat  with  piidc  and  joy,  by  the  news  of  battles  fought 
and  victories  won  on  the  beloved  soil  of  their  glorious  Slate. 
To  the  true  soldier  there  can  be  no  greater  reward. 


g2  "THE  WOMEN  OF  TUE 

Much  has  been  done ;  but  raucb  remains  to  be  done.  Our 
mortal  foe  is  again  gathering  his  strength  for  another  and  still 
another  bIow;"but  the  Commanding  General  of  the  Army  of 
Texas  is  confident  that  his  troops  will  return  these  blows,  and 
Avill  astonish  still  more  their  enemies  and  the  world,  by  such 
evidences  of  skill  and  audacity,  as  shall  make  Texan  a  better 
word  than  Spartan. 

With  this  assurance,  he  leaves  for  a  short  time  this  immediate 
scene  of  his  labors,  to  secure  other  points  and  prepare  other 
fields  of  glory,  confident  that  the  officers  and  men  of  his  com- 
mand will  use  all  the  means  in  their  power  to  perfect  themselves 
in  such  a  knowledge  and  practice  of  their  profession  as  will 
ensure  the  fulfilment  of  the  highest  expectations  of  their  friends 
and  country. 

By  command  of  J.  BANKHEAD  MAGRUDER, 

Major  General. 

Stephex  D.  Yancey,  A.  A.  A.  G. 


—   l^^lMlt     I  tllB 


YANKEE  ACCOUNT  OP  THE  CAPTUEE  OF  THE  DIANA. 

Port  Hudson^,  April  4. 
The  New  Orleans  "Era,"  of  the  2d  inst.,  contains  the  parti- 
culars of  the  capture  of  the  Federal  gunboat  Diana,  on  Sunday 
last,  a  few  miles  above  Brashear  City,  on  Atshafalaya  Bayou,  by 
a  portion  of  Sibley's  command.  It  says :  "  The  Diana  was  com- 
manded by  Captain  Peterson,  and  had  aboard  Company  A,  12th 
Connecticut,  and  Cotopany  F,  16th  New  York — in  all,  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  officers,  privates  and  sailors,  all  of  whom  fell 
into  the  hands  of  the  Confederates,  together  with  the  boat. 
She  mounted  one  thirty-four  pounder  Parrott,  two  thirty- two 
smooth  bores,  and  two  twelve  pounder  guns.  The  boat  was 
badly  damaged.  The  report  of  the  engagement  at  Atchafalaya 
was  distinctly  heard  at  Brashear  City.  General  Weitzel  com- 
manding, immediately  sent  the  gunboat  Calhoyn  to  assist  the 
Diana,  but  having  no  pilot,  the  Calhoun  grounded  and  came 
near  sharing  the  same  fate.  A  South  wind  raised  the  water  and 
released  the  Calhoun.  The  Confederate  loss  was  unknown. 
The  Federals  lost  three  officers  and  two  2>i"ivates  killed." — 1863. 


MEN  WHOSE  NAMES  SHOULD  NEVEE  DIE. 

When  Brigadier  General  Garland,  of  Virginia,  fell  mortally 
wounded  on  the  bloody  field  of  Sharpsburg,  his  Aid  rode  up  to 
the  dying  hero  with  the  inquiry,  "  Are  you  hurt.  General  ?" 

"  Yes,"  he  answered,  "  I  am  dying — go  teil  the  senior  Colonel 
of  this  Brigade  to  assume  command." 

Was  there  ever  a  more  illustrious  example  of  devotion  to 
duty  than  this  ?    Does  history  furnish  a  parallel  ?     The  name  of 


SECOND  AMERI^JlN  REVOLUTION.  63 

Garland  might  might  ■well  be  inscribed  on  a  monument  to  those 
whose  latest  breath  murmured  forth  the  accents  of  patriotism. 

But  not  among  Generals  alone  do  w«  find  ever  memorable 
illustrations  of  all  that  is  ennobling  'and  all  that  is  divine  in 
human  impulses  and  character.  The  armies  of  the  South  fur- 
nish from  among  the  common  soldiery  instances  of  heroism  and 
of  an  inextinguishal)Ie  love  of  glory  which  no  recorded  example 
of  human  greatness  transcends  in  ennobling  characteristics. 

When  Sergeant  Spithaler,  of  the  Swiss  Rifles,  fell  mortally 
wounded  on  the  battle-field  of  Perryville,  his  thigh  crushed  and 
torn  by  a  cannon  shot,  Colonel  Tyle»',  his  commanding  officer, 
went  to  him,  saying,  '•  let  me  have  you  removed  to  the  rear." 

"No?"  said  the.  expirinsj  officer,  "let  me  die  on  the  battle- 
field." 

His  name  should  never  be  stricken  from  the  roll  of  his  com- 
pany, and  whenever  it  is  called,  let  some  war  worn  comrade 
answer  as  was  done  for  one  who  fell  thus  in  the  old  war  for  in- 
('ependence — let  som<?  old  veteran  answer,  '•'■Dead  on  the 
Field:' 


THE  CONFEDERATE  NAVY. 

Since  the  days  of  Paul  Jones  there  have  been  no  achievements 
of  a  single  ship  in  naval  warfare  as  brilliant  as  those  of  the 
Alabama.  Captain  Semmes  has  won  for  himself  and  his  country 
imperishable  laurels.  The  Florida,  which  has  just  put  to  sea, 
under  her  gallant  commander,  bids  fair  to  rival  the  renown  of 
the  Alabama.  The  Xavy  Department  and  the  Confederate 
Congress  ought  to  devote  their  utmost  energies  to  putting  more 
ships  afloat,  and  giving  an  opportunity  to  our  gallant  naval  ofli- 
cers  to  distinguish  themselves  and  render  service  to  the  Con- 
federacy. The  ocean  is  the  only  arena  upon  which  we  can  carry 
on  aggressive  warfare  ag.ainst  the  Yankees,  and  touch  them  in 
the  vital  spot  of  both  their  pride  and  interests.  The  extreme 
sensitiveness  manifested  in  their  commercial  circles  to  the 
oper.ations  of  a  single  ship,  the  Alabama,  shows  us  their  weak 
spot,  and  we  should  strike  at  it  with  ail  our  power.  With  all 
the  bot'Sted  prowess  of  the  Yankees  upon  the  deep,  we  believe 
that  a  Confederate  navy  can  be  built  up  which  will  make  the 
sea  as  uncomfortable  to  them  as  the  shore,  and  drive  their  com- 
merce— the  pource  of  ali  their  wealth — f'-cm  the  face  of  the 
oecan. — Disjyateh. 


THE  EABLY  CASEER  OF  THE  FLORIDA-SEVEN  VESSELS 
DESTROYED. 

The  privateer  Oreto  ran  the  blockade  of  Mobile,  on  the  13th 
January,  1S5S,  nntwithstan-ling  there  were  nine  United  StatCH 


64  TirE  -WOMEN  OF  THE 

vessels  of  war  stationed  off  the  bar,  and  with  full  information 
that  she  was  meditating  an  escape.  The  steamers  Cuyler  and 
Oneida  chased  the  Oreto,  the  latter  of  which  had  returned  to 
•the  fleet  off  JMobile.  It  "is  supposed  that  the  Cuyler  followed 
the  Oreto  to  Havana,  to  which  place  it  was  thought  that  she 
would  go.  On  her  way  to  Havana  she  destroyed  the  brig 
Katelle,  of  Boston. 

On  tlie  afternoon  of  the  22(3,  four  miles  from  the  coast,  the 
pirate  fell  in  with  the  brig  Windward,  Captain  Roberts,  from 
Matanzas,  with  a  cargo  of  molasses  for  Portland.  The  Wind- 
ward was  seized  and  burned,  and  the  crew  sent  ashore  in  their 
own  boat.  Her  cargo  belonged  to  Spanish  merchants.  On  the 
morning  of  the  23d,  off  Cardenas,  the  Oreto  captured  and 
burned  the  brig  Cora  Ann,  of  Mechias,  Maine,  Captain  Small, 
from  Philadelphia,  laden  with  shucks.  She  was  burnt  only  one 
mile  from  land  and  the  captain  and  crew  sent  into  Cardenas  in 
their  own  boat.  Soon  after,  the  Oreto  captured  two  mo'-e  brigs, 
just  out  from  Cardenas,  burned  one  and  sunk  the  other.  A 
rchooner,  which  arrived  at  Havana  on  the  nmrning  of  the  28th 
states  that  the  Oreto  was  last  seen  with  the  British  flag  flying, 
steering  for  the  Bahamas. 

A  letter  from  Havana,  dated  24th  January,  says  :  "  Nothing 
is  talked  of  here  but  the  airopities  cominitted  by  the  rebel  pirate 
Maflit.  The  Florida  has  captuied  and  destroyed  four  merchant 
vessels  with  valuable  cargoes. 

The  Florida  was  pursued,  after  leaving  Mobile,  by  the  Federal 
steamer  Cuyler.  Captain  Maftitt  hauled  to,  and  gave  her  a  shot 
cutting  away  the  foremast..  The  Cuyler  was  so  disiabled  that 
she  had  to  cease  pursuit. 

The  "  World"  says  that  the  exploits  of  the  Florida  caused 
profound  excitement  in  New  York  Thursday,   and  well  they 
might,  as  she  is  as  swift  as  the  Alabama,  stronger,  and  carries 
heavier  guns.     The  Florida  is  commanded  by  an  oflicer  who. 
believes  in  fighting. 

Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  in  her  first  week's  cruise  she  de- 
stroyed seven  vessels.  Hurrah  for  the  Confederate  war  steamer 
Florida.  H.  W.  R.  J. 


BRILLIANT    NAVAL    VICTORY-ACCOUNTS    FROM    EYE 

WITNESSES. 

In  the  following  we  give  full  particulars  of  the  Confederate 
Naval  victory,  by  which  the  blockade  of  the  port  of  Charleston 
has  been  effectually  raised : 

At  about  11  o'clock  on  Friday  night,  February  27,  the  Pal- 
metto >State,  in  command  of  Captain  Rutledge,  and  with  the 
Flag  officer.  Commodore  D,  N.  Ingraham  on  board,  together 


SECOND  AM3EIR1CAN  KETOLUTION.  65 

with  the  Chicora,  commanded  by  Captain  Jno.  Ti.  Tucker,  cast 
off  from  the  wharf,  and  with  tlieir  prows  turned  seaward  steamed 
across  the  Cooper.  The  moon  was  shining  brightly,  there  was 
not  a  cloud  on  the  face  of  the  blue  sky,  and  the  surface  of  the 
water  was  smooth  and  glassy  as  a  mill  pond.  Nature  seemed 
to  smile  upon  the  enterprise,  and  water,  gky  and  wind  presented 
a  most  delightful  manifestation"  of  the  divine  favor  toward  our 
just  and  noble  cause. 

The  deep  silence  that  brooded  over  the  water  was  6nly  broken 
by  the  gurgle  of  the  screws,  as  the  iron  covered  vessels  moved 
slowly  over  the  bay.  Having  reached  Fort  Sumter,  they  came 
to  anchor,  and  there  awaited  the  going  down  of  the  moon. 

At  three  o'clock,  the  report  of  two  guns  echoed  through  the 
air.  That  was  the  signal  for  their  departure,  and  once  more 
the  gunboats  are  in  motion.  Silently  they  move  through  the 
darkness,  urging  their  course  with  all  speed,  so  as  to  come  upon 
the  unsuspecting  war  vessels  before  the  dawn  of  day. 

The  undertaking  promised  rich  rewards,  and  the  nearer  the 
monsters  drew  to  the  hostile  ships,  the  more  impertinent  and 
resolved  became  the  gallant  men  who  were  beneath  their  iron 
roofs.  Never  did  the  little  vessels  seem  to  move  so  sluggishly,, 
and  most  closely  did  the  officers  and  crew  scan  the  clear  horizon,, 
iearing  that  the  light  would  steal  over  the  sea  before  they 
reached  the  blockading  fleet. 

But  deep  darkness  is  still  on  the  deep,  and  they  are  near  the 
enemy.  Commodore  Ingraham  descries  a  black  form  just  ahead, 
and  the  sharp  bow  of  the  Palmetto  State  is  tnrned  upon  the 
object.  Nearer  and  nearer  with  all  steam  on  moves  the  iron 
vessel.  A  crash  is  heard,  and  the  ram  of  the  gunboat  penetrates 
the  wooden  side  of  one  of  Lincoln's  blockaders.  And  while 
the  water  was  washing  into  the  hole,  the  guns  of  the  Palmetto 
State  opened  upon  the  hostile  vessel. 

The  oflicer  in  command  of  the  Mercedita,  sfeing  it  was  folly 
to  contend  Avith  such  an  antagonist,  immediately  struck  his  flag 
and  surrendered.  In  a  short  time  the  vessel  went  down.  All 
this  time  Captain  Tucker,  of  the  Chicora,  was  laying  about  liim 
vigorously  right  and  left.  The  shells  from  his  guns  sot  fire  to  a 
large  ship  of  war,  and  she  lowered  her  flag.  He  sunk,  it  is  be- 
lieved, another  vessel,  and  the  two  monsters  threw  shot  and 
shell  at  the  otl'.er  vessels  that,  seeing  the  fate  that  had  bci.illen 
their  comrades,  turned  their  bows  to  the  sea  .ind  were  making 
their  best  speed  to  get  beyond  the  reach  of  danger.  Not  one 
of  them  showed  any  disposition  to  continue  the  fight;  but, 
careless  ot  the  honor  of  that  flag  they  profess  to  adore,  their 
cowardly  hearts  thoroughly  possessed  by  fear,  they  fled  ^fith  all 
the  speed  their  sails  and  engines  en.able<l  them  to  coi/\mand. 
But  though  they  fled  so  precipitately,  we  have  no  doubt  that 
many  of  the  seventeen  carried  away  with  them  som^  painful 
remembrance  of   that  terrible  surprise,  while  it  is  positively 


gg  THE  WOEEN  OF  THE 

kao.wn  that  several,  who  succeeded  in  -making  good  their  escape, 
were  severely  injured. 

When  the  morning  light  broke  not  one  of  the  fleet  was  in 
sif^ht.  The  gunboats  cruised  many  miles  seaward  from  the  bar, 
but  the  glasses  revealed  nothing  within  the  range  of  vision. 

The  success  of  that  attack  is  most  gratifying,  and  coming  so 
soon  after  the  brilliant  exploit  performed  by  Magruder,  at  Gal- 
veston, it  carries  unspeakable  joy  to  the  hearts  of  the  country. 

"We  cannot  speak  in  too  high  terms  of  praise  of  the  judgment, 
skill  and  intrepidity  that  marked  the  undertaking,  and  its  suc- 
cessful accomplishment.  Had  it  been  possible,  the  entire  fleet 
would  have  been  sunk  or  disabled. 

Commodore  Ingraham,  Captain  Rutiedge  and  Tucker,  and 
the  ofiicers  under  them,  as  well  as  their  brave  crew»  deserve  our 
profound  and  hearty  gratitude. 

We  are  indebted  to  several  friends  on  board  the  Palmetto 
State  for  the  following  account  of  her  operations.  We  also  give 
the  account  of  our  Special  Reporter,  who  was  on  board  one  of 
the  tenders.  These  accounts  contain  all  the  particulars  of  the 
expedition  and  engagement,  and  show  that  it  has  been  a  bril- 
liant and  glorious  success  on  our  side,  limited  only  by  the 
cowardly  action  of  the  blockaders.  They  fled,  small  and  large, 
without  even  making  a  show  of  fight,  notwithstanding  the  pre- 
sence of  two  forty-gun  frigates,  the  Susquehaunah  and  Canan- 
daigua.  Their  loss,  however,  is  known  to  be  severe.  Two  of 
their  vessels  are  known  to  be  sunk,  while  several  were  fired  and 
went  ofl"  in  a  damaged  condition. 

THE  MOVEMENTS  OF  THE  PALMETTO  STATE. 

At  eleven  o'clock  Friday  night  the  gunboat  Palmetto  State, 
Captain  Rutiedge,  bearing  the  flag  of  Commodore  Duncan,  N. 
Ingraham,  left  her  mooring  and  proceeded  out  the  harbor  to- 
wards. Fort  Sumter,  Abreast  of  Fort  Sumter,  she  passed  the 
three  steamers  acting  as  tenders,  the  Gen.  Clinch,  Edwin  and 
Chesterfield.  At  4:30  A.  M.  the  Palmetto  State  crossed  the 
bar,  and  stood  out  at  sea  in  the  direction  of  the  blockading  fleet. 
At  5:20  A.  M.  we  came  up  to  the  United  States  steamer  Merce- 
dita,  and  were  hailed  by  the  watch  on  deck,  when  the  following 
colloquy  took  place : 

Watch. — What  steamer  is  that  ?  Drop  your  anchor — back — 
back — and  be  careful,  or  you  will  run  into  us. 

Captain  Rutiedge. — This  is  the  Confederate  States  steamer 
Pahnetto  State. 

As  the  answer  was  given  the  Palmetto  State,  with  full  steam 
up,  ran  into  the  Mercedita,  the  bow  striking  her  right  about 
midships  and  making  an  entrance  of  about  three  leet.  At  the 
same  time  our  bow  gun  was  fired  with  a  seven  inch  incendiary 
shell.  We  immediately  backed  out,  when  the  Mercedita  hauled 
down  her  flag.  They  were  ordered  to  send  a  boat  to  us,  and 
Lieut.  T.  Abbot,  commanding,  came  oS"  with  a  boat's  crew  and 


SECOND  AJIEEICAN  REVOLUTION.  UT 

surrendered  his  vessel  iu  the  name  of  Commodore  Slell wagon, 
of  the  Mercedita,  carrying  seven  gvms,  and  one  hundred  and 
fi(ty-eiglit  men.  He  stated  that  his  vessel  was  in  a  sinking  Con- 
dition, and  begged  our  officers  to  relieve  them.  A  shot  had 
pierced  her  boiler,  which  had  burst  and  scalded  a  large  number 
of  men.  Lieut.  Abbott  begged  Commodore  Ingraham  to  take 
the  men  with  him  on  board  the  Palmetto  State,  as  in  their  haste 
to  come  to  us  they  had  neglected  to  put  in  the  plug,  and  their 
small  boat  was  only  kept  afloat  by  the  strenuous  eflbrts  of  the 
men  bailing  the  boat.  He  also  stated  that  the  water  in  the 
Mercedita  had,  at  the  time  of  his  leaving,  already  risen  as  liigh 
as  the  engine  floor. 

Commodore  Ingraham  regretted  that  he  could  not  comply 
with  the  request  as  he  had  no  room  to  accommodate  them  aboard 
of  his  vessels  and  no  small  boats  or  any  other  means  of  aftbrdin^ 
them  relief.  Lieut.  Abbot  then  pledged  his  word  of  honor  for 
the  oflScers  and  crew  of  the  Mercedita  not  to  serve  in  any.  man- 
ner against  the  Confederate  States  until  regularly  exchanged, 
upon  which  condition  he  was  sent  on  board  his  own  vessel.  The 
Mercedita  was  taken  completely  by  surprise.  They  were  roused 
from  their  slumbers  by  the  shock,  the  men  not  having  scarcely 
time  to  dress  themselves.  Lieut.  Abbott  and  the  men  with 
him  were  nearly  all  destitute  of  clothing. 

The  Palmetto  State,  leaving  the  Mercedita  to  her  fate,  stood 
out  to  sea,  and  engaged  several  other  vessels  of  the  Abolition 
blockading  fleet,  occasionally  exchanging  shots.  The  latter, 
however,  fled  at  our  approach,  firing  at  long  distances,  and 
leaving  us  far  astern.  One  or  two  shots  were  exchanged  with 
tlie  United  States  frigate  Powhatan.  The  latter,  however,  fol- 
lowed the  example  of  her  companions,  and  fled.  We  then  stood 
Northward,  towards  the  Chicora,  which  at  this  time  was  almost 
surrounded  by  the  enemy's  vessels.  At  8  A.  M.  there  being  no 
more  of  the  Abolition  fleet  in  sight,  we  stoo<l  back  to  the  en- 
trance of  Beach  Channel,  having  signalled  the  Chicora  to  return. 
On  passing  we  were  saluted  by  Forts  Moultrie,  Stimter  and 
Riplev,  and  arrived  at  the  wharf  in  the  citv  a  little  befor'»  si\ 
P.  M.' 

THE  MOVEMENTS  OF  THE  CHKOKA. 

The  Chicora,  Captain  John  R.  Tucker,  started  from  hor  wharf 
at  half-past  eleven  Friday  night,  .and  crossed  the  bar  at  4:30  A. 
M.     ^\  e  c<>mmeu<:ed   action  at  5:05.     The  Palmett*^  State  en- 
gaged an  Abolition  vessel  on  the  right,  while  we  en  '     '  ■ 
one  on  the  left.     As  we  pa^ed  th<'  Ijlorkader  on  thf 
Palmetto  State  was  lyin^'                '•■  of  her.     K' ■ 
course,  we  proceeded  to  "'                y  yards  of  »1  • 
left,  and  then  gave  her  a  '                  our  bow 
at  the  time  beinir  under   •                viy      W 
gave  her  th.e  full 
She  immc'Vi'tolv        _ 


OS  TlIE  AVOMEN  OF  THE 

tress  to  the  rest  of  the  fleet.  The  last  seen  of  her  by  signal 
officer  Saunders,  she  was  stern  down  very  low  in  the  water,  "and 
disai'ipeared  very  suddenly.  Tliis  vessel  is  supposed  to  have 
o-one  down.  Notwithstanding  the  Chicora  immediately  steamed 
towards  her,  nothing  could  be  discovered  of  the  vessel. 

The  Chicora  proceeding  farther  out  to  sea,  stood  northward 
and  eastward,  and  met  two  vessels  apparently  coming  to  the 
relief  of  the  missing  steamer.  We  engaged  them.  One  of 
them  alter  iiring  a  few  guns,  withdrew.  Standing  to  the  north-" 
ward,  about  daybreak  we  steamed  up  to  a  small  side-wheel,  two- 
masted  steamers,  and  endeavored  to  come  to  close  quarters, 
She  kept  clear  of  us,  driving  away  as  rapidly  as  possible,  not, 
however,  without  receiving  our  compliments  and  carrying  with 
her  four  or  five  shots.  Shortly  after  the  steamship  Quaker  City, 
another  side-wheel  steamer  came  gallantly  bearing  down  upon 
the  Chjcora  and  commaiced  firing  at  long  range.  Neither 
would  permit  our  boat  to  get  within  a  respectable  distance.  Two 
of  our  shots  struck  the  Quaker  City  and  she  left  apparently 
perfectly  satisfied,  in  a  crippled  condition.  Another  side-wheel, 
tAVO-masted  steamer,  with  walking  beams  now  steamed  toward 
the  Chicora,  coming  down  on  our  stern.  Captain  Tucker  per- 
ceiving it,  we  rounded  to,  and  proceeded  until  within  about  five 
hundred  yards,  wheif  the  belligerent  steamer  also  rounded  to, 
and  gave  us  both  broadsides,  and  a  shot  from  her  pivot  gun. 
We  fired  our  forward  gun  with  an  incendiary  shell,  and  struck 
her  just  forward  of  her  wheel-house,  setting  her  on  fire,  dis- 
abling and  stopping  her  port  wheel.  This  vessel  was  fired  both 
fore  and  aft,  and  volumes  of  smoke  observed  to  issue  from  every 
aperture.  As  we  neared  her  she  hauled  doAvn  her  flag  and 
made  a  signal  of  surrender,  l)ut  still  kejjt  under  Avay  with  her 
starboard  wheel,  and  changing  her  direction.  This  was  just 
after  daybreak.  We  succeeded  in  catching  this  vessel,  bl;t 
having  surrendered,  and  the  Captain  supposing  her  boiler  struck 
and  the  escaping  steam  preventing  the  engineers  from  going 
into  the  engine  room  to  6top  her ;  ordered  us  not  to  fire.  She 
thus  made  her  escape.  After  this  vessel  had  got  out  of  our 
reach,  to  the  perfectly  safe  distance  of  about  three  miles,  she 
fired  her  last  rifled  gun,  again  hoisted  her  flag,  setting  all  sails, 
and  firing  her  rifled  gun  repeatedly  at  us  as  she  left. 

The  Chicora  now  engaged  six  more  of  the  enemy's  vessels  at 
one  time — three  side-wheel  steamers  and  three  propellers — all 
at  long  range.  Discovering  that  the  flag  boat.  Palmetto  State, 
standing  in  towards  the  shore,  orders  were  given  to  follow  her. 
On  our  return  we  again  came  across  a  thi'ee-masted  bark  rigged 
vessel,  which  wc  engaged,  firing  our  guns  as  we  passed,  striking 
her  once  or  twice.  We  then  kept  on  our  course  to  the  Bar, 
having  sustained  no  damage  in  the  action,  nor  a  single  casualty 
on  board.  The  last  ship  mentioned  above  kept  firing  at  us  until 
we  got  clear  out  of  range,  and  we  giving  them  our  return  com- 


SECOND  AilEEICAN  KEVOLUTION.  ^',) 

pliments.  One  of  t,he  blockaders  was  certainly  sunk.  Wo 
engaged  her  at  the  distance  of  only  one  hundred  yards,  and  she 
settled  down  with  her  stern  clear  under  water. 

The  Chicora  anchored  in  Beach  Channel,  at  8:30  A.  M.,  and 
arrived  at  her  wharf  in  the  city  about  six  o'clock,  receiving  a 
salute  from  all  the  forts  and  batteries  as  she  passed  on  her  re- 
turn. The  number  of  shots  fired  by  the  Chicora  during  the 
whole  engagement  was  twenty-seven,  mostly  incendiary  shells. 
Lieut.  Gaskoll  commanded  the  forward  pivot  gun,  assisted  by 
Midshipman  Pinckey ;  Lieutenant  W.  IL*  Wall,  tlio  after  pivot ; 
Master  Mason,  the  starboard  broadside  ;  Master  Payne,  the  lar 
board  broadside. 

The  different  divisions  were  commanded  by  1st  Lieut.  G.  IL 
Bier  and  Lieut.  J.  C.  Claybrook,  assisted  by  Midshijjmen  R.  H. 
Bacot  and  Signal  Officer  Saunders. 

The  Pilots  of  the  Chicora  were  Messrs.  Thomas  Payne  and 
Aldrich. 

The  results  of  the  engagement  are :  Two  vessels  sunk,  four 
set  on  fire,  and  the  remainder  driven  away. 

CAPTURE  OF  TUE  GUNBOAT  ISAAC  SMITH,  IX  STOXO  EIVEE. 

The  Isaac  Smith,  which  was  captured  in  Stono  River  by  our 
troops,  is  an  iron-screw  steamer  of  453  tons,  and  carried  eight 
eight-inch  navy  guns  or  sixty-eight  pounders  and  seven-inch 
thirty  pound  Parrot  gun.  She  was  commanded  at  the  time  by 
Capt.  F.  S.  Ccnover.  llcr  crew  consisted  of  eleven  officers  and 
one  hundred  and  five  men,  of  whom  eight  were  killed  andfifleen 
wounded.  She  was  towed  up  on  Saturday  morning  by  the 
steamer  Sumter  to  a  place  of  safety  under  the  guns  of  Fort 
Pembertoii,  and  will  probably  be  brought  to  the  city  to-day  for 
repairs.  The  Parrot  gun  was  brought  on  the  Sumter,  on  Sun- 
day morning,  to  the  city,  and  now  lies  on  Southern  wharf. 

The  steamer's  upper  works  are  badly  dam.aged  by  our  shot, 
and  the  masts  pierced  with  l)ullets.  Her  sides  also  give  evidence 
of  the  accuracy  of  our  shot.  She  will  be  repaired  immediately 
and  made  ready  for  sea.  Ninety-three  prisoners,  including 
three  negroes,  arrived  in  the  city  on  Saturday  morning,  under 
escort  of  a  detachment  of  the  Charleston  Battalion.  They  were 
taken  to  Gen.  Ripley's  Headquarters,  and  ordered  to  tlie  Pro- 
vost ^larshal's  Office,  Lieut.  Col.  Gaillard,  who  registered  their 
names  and  turned  them  over  to  the  care  of  Mr.  Milligan,  at  the 
Charleston  jail. 

From  one  of  the  prisoners,  who  appears  to  be  a  very  iutelli- 
gent  person,  vc  gather  the  following  account: 

"  Early  Friday  morning  we  were  practicing  at  a  target  on 
Cole's  Island.  In  the  afternoon  started  up  Stono  River  and 
dropped  anchor  a  little  above  Grimball's  plantation.  We  wero 
preparing  supper  and  the  mess  were  pi]>ed  up  when  a  battery 
immediately  .above  us  on  James'  Island,  opened  fire.  The  first 
shot  that  struck  us  entered  the  stern  of  the  vessel,  di-molishing 


70  THE  "WOMEN  OF  THE 

our  crockery,  kettles,- tfec,  killing  three  men,  besides  wounding; 
otherg.  This  shot  apparently  came  from  a  clump  of  trees.  We 
immediately  got  up  anchor,  and  the  men  beat  to  quarters.  Our 
guns  were  fired  in  the  direction  of  the  battery  from  were  the 
shot  came,  when  another  cross  firing  was  opened  on  the  boat 
from  a  battery  right  ahead,  supposed  to  be  at  Legare's  place  on 
John's  Island.  We  ran  down  as  far  as  the  turning  of  the  river, 
where  some  wooden  spiles  were  driven  iu  ;  another  battery  now 
opened  on  us,  Takiijg  the  vessel  fore  and  aft  and  amidships. 
The  boat  had  gone  a  little  farther  when  a  shot  struck  the  steam 
condenser,  and  crippling  the  machinery,  put  a  stop  to  our 
further  progress.  We  then  struck  our  flag  and  surrendered  the 
boat.  After  the  surrender,  the  gunboat  Commodore  Mc- 
Donough  steamed  up  to  the  assistance  of  the  Isaac  Smith,  and 
commenced  firing,  as  the  prisoners  were  landing,  the  Smith's 
Ensign  and  Pennant  at  the  time  having  been  turned.  The  Isaac 
Smith  has  been  in  service  in  Stono  River  about  four  months. 


Charlkstox,  February  1. 
The  following  is  the  official  proclamation  in  regard  to  the 
raising  of  the  blockade : 

Hkadquaktees  Naval  akd  Land  Foeces,  [ 
Charleston,  S.  C,  Jan.  31,  1863.  \ 
About  the  hour  of  five  o'clock,  this  morning,  the  Confederate 
States  Naval  Forces  on  this  station  attacked  the  United  States 
blockading  fleet  off  the  harbor  of  the  city  of  Cliarleston,  and 
sunk,  dispersed  or  drove  off  and  out  of  sight,  for  a  time,  the 
entire  hostile  fleet.  Therefore,  we,  the  undersigned.  Com- 
manders respectively  of  the  Confederate  States  Naval  and  Land 
Forces  in  this  quarter,  do  hereby  formally  declare  the  blockade 
by  the  United  States  of  the  said  city  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  to  be 
raised  by  a  superior  force  of  the  Confederate  States,  from  and 
after  this' 31  St  day  of  January,  A.  D.,  1863. 

(Signed)  *    G.  T.  BEAUREGAKD, 

General  Commanding.. 
(Signed)  D.  N.  INGRAMAM, 

Comrnandinof  Naval  Forces  in  South  Carolina,, 
•    Oflicial :  THOS.  JORDAN,  Chief  of  Staff. 


Richmond,  January  31. 

The  Secretary  of  State  has  notified  the  Foreign  Consuls  that 
he  has  received  official  information  of  the  opening  of  the  block- 
ade off  Charleston. 

The  belief  here  is  that  the  blockade  cannot  be  renewed  within. 
sixty  days. 

The  Foreign  Consuls  here  (Charleston)  held  a  meeting  last 
night.  They  are  unanimously  of  the  opinion  that  the  blockade 
of  this  port  is  legally  raised. 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  71 

CONFEDERATE  VICTORY- YANKEE  ARMADA  REPULSED 
WITH  GREAT  LOSS. 

At  Charleston,  on  the  evening  of  the  Tth  of  April,  1863,  at 
half-past  tw  o  o'clock,  the  Yankee  fleet  6f  Monitors,  accompanied 
by  the  Ironsides,  made  an  attack  upon  Fort  Sumter  with  a  view 
to  reducing  that  famous  stronghold.  They  concentrated  their 
fire  mainly  upon  that  Fort..  A  considerable  quantity  of  metal 
was,  however,  thrown  at  Fort  Moultrie  and  Battery  Bee.  As 
the  fleet  approached  the  winding  of  the  channel  brought  them 
within  six  hundred  yards  of  Fort  Moultrie,  which  gave  her  an 
opportunity  to  fire  the  first  gun  in  the  glorious  repulse  of  that 
boasted  invulnerable  Yankee  fleet. 

The  steamer  Passaic  was  the  leader  in  the  attack.  After  an 
engagement  of  twenty  minutes  she  retired  disabled,  and  was 
soon  followed  by  seven  others,  all  in  turn  having  received  a 
severe  caetigation.  The  Keokuck  remained  longest  in  the  con- 
flict, having  trusted  in  her  vaunted  invulnerability.  Scarce 
twenty  minutes  sufiiced,  however,  for  her  to  adopt  the  proverb, 
"He  that  fights  and  runs  away,  may  live  to  fight  another  day,"' 
and  withdrew  trom  the  scene  of  action,  in  a  sinking  condition, 
about  five  o'clock  in  the  evening.  Thus  ended  in  one  single 
day,  aye,  in  a  few  short  hours,  the  attack  uj^on  Charleston  ;  the 
preparations  for  which  required  lull  two  years  of  time  and  a 
cost  of  upwards  of  one  hundred  millions  of  dollars  to  the  Abo- 
lition Tankee  nation. 

It  is  an  established  fact  that  the  troops  in  the  various  forts 
and  batteries  constituting  the  bay  and  harbor  defences  of 
Charleston  with  a  universal  shout  of  joy  leaped  to  their  guns 
when  they  saw  the  hour  of  trial  of  their  skill,  the  strength  of 
their  works  and  the  virtue  of  their  guns  and  mettle  was  at  hand. 
The  first  volley  from  each  fort  and  battery  was  accompanied 
with  a  shout  of  defiance  that  rend  the  air  and  reverberated  from 
fort  to  fort  and  from  battery  to  battery. 

They  felt  every  confidence  in  their  ability  to  frustrate  the  de- 
vices of  the  foe,  and  with  a  determination  to  do,  or  die,  in  the 
protection  of  that  famed  city,  from  the  poluting  presence  of  a 
hated  enemy  who  with  boastful  threats  and  the  most  formidable 
preparations  had  made  his  appearance. 

But,  while  speaking  of  the  valor  and  daring  oi  our  tr'io]  s 
(that  manod  the  guns  which  have  done  such  terriTtle  cx(  cT.tion 
'nj  sinking  the   Keokuk,  the   most  formidable  double-turreted 


72  TILE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

Monitor  and  disabling  eight  otters  who  in  time  withdrew  from 
the  contest  to  save  themselves  from  destruction,  having  thought 
prudence  the  better  part  of  valor,)  we  must  not  forget '  the 
proper  head,  'the  ever-vigilant  and  sagacious  leader  General 
Beauregard,  who  some  days  previous,  through  mysterious 
sources  of  information,  expected  an  attack  at  an  early  day ;  that 
intelligence  received  confirmation  on  Sunday  niorning,  when 
four  Monitors,  the  Ironsides  and  thirty  vessels  of  various  sizes 
were  seen  off  the  Bar.  Four  Monitors  and  thirty-five  wooden 
vessels  were  added  to  the  fleet,  the  following-  day  thirty-five 
vessels,  for  the  most  part  transports,  appeared  in  the  Stono,  and' 
the  enemy  lauded  a  force  of  about  six  thousand  men  on  Coles' 
and  Battery  Islands.  These  facts,  with  other  indications,  lead 
General  Beaaregard,  to  count  upon  an  attack  on  Tuesday,  and 
the  expectations  of  that  sagacious  and  watchful  General  were 
realized. 

Between  two  and  three  o'clock  m  the  afternoon  a  dispatch 
from  Col.  Rhett,  commandant  of  Fort  Sumter,  informed  Gen. 
Beauregard  that,  the  fleet  were  approaching  the  fort.  The 
action  was  opened,  by  Fort  Moultrie  firing  the  first  gun.  Fort 
Sumter  opens  ten  minutes  later.  Battery  Bee,  Forts  Wagner 
and  Beauregard,  and  the  Battery  at  Cummins'  Point,  also, 
opened,  firing  by  battery.  The  fleet  fired  with  great  rapidity ; 
our  forts  and  batteries  replies  with  spirit  and  singular  accu- 
racy. The  Ironsides  took  position  to  the  left  at  Fort  Sumter, 
directing  all  her  guns  at  that  Fort,  and  throwing  shells  exclu- 
sively. 

It  was  manifest  that  the  Ironsides  appointed  to  test  the 
strength  of  the  fort,  whose  reduction  was  the  inauguration  of 
the  terrific  contest  now  going  on.  Fort  Sumter  acknowledge 
the  compliment  of  the  preference  by  pouring  the  contents  of 
her  biggest  guns  into  the  sides  of  that  pride  of  the  Yankee 
navy,  and  she  was  not  treated  with  contempt  by  the  other  fortf* 
and  batteries. 

About  forty-five  minutes  after  the  engagement  began,  steam 
was  seen  issuing,  in  dense  volumes,  from  the  Ironsides,  and  she 
withdrew  from  the  action,  taking  position  to  the  south  of  Fort 
Sumter,  but  remaining  a  silent  spectator  of  the  exciting  scene. 
She  was  seriously  damaged. 

The  fight  continued  till  forty-fire  minutes  past  five  o'clock, 
when  the  last  of  the  fleet,  the  Keokuk,  steamed  away  and  came 


SECOND  AMEEICAN  REVOLDTION.  73 

to  .anchor  off  Morris'  Island,  where  she  sunk.  Next  mornino- 
only  her  smoke  stack  remained  visible. 

During  the  battle,  a  drummer  boy,  named  Ahreene,  was  killed 
at  Fort  Sumter  and  five  men  wounded,  two  severely  in  the  head, 
the  other  slightly.     A  shot  passed  through  Fort  Sumter's  Hag. 

Colonel  Khett'was  in  command  of  Fort  .Sumter,  Col.  Butler, 
of  Fort  Moultrie,  Capt.  Sitgraves  of  Fort  Beauregard,  Lieut. 
Col.  Simkins  of  Battery  Bee,  Major  linger  of  Battery  Wagner, 
and  Lieut.  Lesevne,  with  a  detachment  from  Fort  Sumtor,  of  the 
Battery  on  Cummins'  point. 

Fort  Sumter  was  hit  thirty-four  times,  but  received  no  mate- 
rial injury.  Six  men  belonging  to  Cai)tain  Mathews'  Artillery 
Company,  stationed  at  Battery  Wagner,  were  wounded.  Two 
of  these  have  since  died.  Two  were  very  seriously  wounded, 
and  it  was  thought  one  would  die  before  morning.  The  other 
two,  including  an  officer,  were  but  slightly  wounded. 

The  last  gun  was  fired  by  the  enemy  at  half-past  five,  V.  M. 

There  were  no  casualties  at  the  Cummins'  Point  Battery. 

The  flag  staff  of  Fort  Moultrie  -vyas  shot  away  and  one  man 
killed  by  its  fall.  The  fort  itself  received  no  injury  -whatever. 
The  chimney  of  one  house  was  taken  off  by  a  ball  and  the  roof 
of  another  house  was  struck  by  a  fragment  of  sliell. 

Thus  is  summed  up  tlie  amount  of  damage  sustained  in  that 
terrible  and  formidable  attack  by  the  hated  Yankees,  who  came 
with  a  fixed  purpose  to  destroy  the  cradle  of  secession  and  the 
nest  of  rebellion,  (according  to  their  version.)  # 

The  Keokuk  was  one  of  the  most  powerful  o^her  class,  and 
her  loss  will  be  a  staggering  blow  to  the  enemy.  She  was  built 
last  spring  and  summer,  in  accordance  with  plans  furnished  by 
Mr.  Whitney,  an  iron  merchant  of  New  York,  and  was  said  to 
be  impervious  to  the  largest  shot  or  shell  capable  of  being 
thrown  from  the  most  formidable  fortification.  Her  armament 
consisted  of  two  fifteen  inch  Dahlgreens — one  in  eiich  turret. 
Thus  ends  one  of  the  boasted  invulnerable  fleet,  wliich,  it  has 
long  been  trumpeted  forth,  could  not  be  sunk,  but  would  de- 
molish and  wipe  out  everything  that  opi)Osed  their  })rogres8. 

The  results,  so  far,  lias  elated  our  people  and  given  the  highest 
satisfaction  to  our  military  commanders. 

The  nondescript,  or  "  Yankee  Devil,"  lur  cieariug  the  clianncl, 
was  washed  ashore  on  ^lon  is'  Island  yesterd.iy,  and  is  now  in 
our  possession.     It   is  described   as  an   old   acow-like  vessel, 


■^4  THE   "WOMEN  OF  THE 

painted  red,  with  a  long  protruding  beak  and  jutting  iron  prongs 
or  *claw8^  intended  for  the  removal  and  bursting  of  torpedoes. 
It  was  attached  to  the  Passaic,  the  leading  vessel,  and  managed 
by  her  during  the  engagement. 

Two  of  the  small  boats  belonging  to  the  Keokuk  have  been 
secured  by  our  men  on  Morris'  Island. 

It  is.a  curious  coincidence  of  war  that  the  commanders  Gene- 
rals Beauregard,  Ripley,  Colonel  Rhett,  Lieut.  Col.  Yates,  and 
nearly  all  the  garrison  of  Fort  Sumter,  .were  the  same  men  who 
were  the  chief  actors  in  the  bloodless  reduction  of  Fort  Sumter 
in  April,  1861,  and  who  have  now  so  gloriously  and  successfully 
repelled  a  formidable  attack  upon  this  famous  fortress,  while  in 
their  keeping. 


A  YANKEE  ESTIMATE  OF  GEH.  BEAUREGARD. 

The  New  York  "  World,"  in  speaking  of  the  fight  at  Charles- 
ton, makes  the  following  allusion  to  Gen.  Beauregard: 

One  result  of  this  Charleston  fight  will  be  to  restore  Beaure- 
gard to  the  favor  of  the  Southern  people.  True,  he  is  boastful, 
egotistical,  untruthful,  and  wanting  in  fact,  but  he  is  certainly 
the  most  marvelous  engineer  of  modern  times.  By  his  genius 
and  professional  skill  he  has  erected  batteries  in  Charleston  har- 
bor that  would  sink  all  the  wooden  fleets  of  the  world  did  they 
come  under  fire,  and  he  has  succeeded,  moreover,  in  driving 
back  in  disgrace,  the  most  impenetrable  iron-clad  fleet  afloat. 
There  is  no  denying  what  this  man  has  done,  unpalatable  though 
it  may  be  to  the  Northern  people. 

But  why  sfiould  the  enemy  seem  to  think  that  Gen.  Beaure- 
gard had  lost  favor  among  the  people  in  the  Confederacy,  was 
it  because  he  so  greatly  defeal^ed  the  Yankees  at  Corinth,  by 
retreating  and  saving  his  little  army  from  destruction  and  utter 
annihilation,  when  the  enemy  had  completed  their  fortifications 
and  entrenchments,  having  had  in  position  three  hundred  guns. 
Or  was  it  because  he  had  broken  down  his  constitution  by  fifteen 
months  of  almost  incessant  service  in  the  field,  having  figured 
most  conspicuously  in  various  campaigns  that  have  resulted  in 
crowning  him  with  undying  fame,  "  not  only  in  the  Confederacy 
but  in  Europe."  His  tenacity  of  purpose,  his  indomitable  will  and 
energy  united  with  his  invaluable  engineering  capacity,  have 
caused  his  name  to  be  heralded  among  the  people  and  nations  of 
the  earth  as  one  of  the  great  Generals  of  the  age.       H.  W.  R.  J. 

P.  S.  Probably  our  Northern  enemy,  like  some  of  the  people 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLFnON.  75 

in  the  Confederacy,  knew  not  what  had  become  of  Gen.  Beau- 
regard while  he  was  at  the  springs  in  Alabama  recruiting  his 
health,  but  since  the  repulse  and  terrible  disaster  to  the  Federal 
fleet  at  Charleston  the  enemies  journalists  have  again  pro- 
nounced him  as  one  of  the  principal  actors  upon  the  stage  in 
this  terrible  drama  of  revolution  and  war.  H.  W.  R.  J. 


THE  FIGHT  AT  CHARLESTON. 

For  a  proper  appreciation  of  our  victory  at  Charleston  I  give 
the  following  extract.  Referring  to  the  light  at  Charleston  the 
New  York  "Herald"  says: 

The  gnus  of  the  forts  were  of  the  heaviest  calibre  and  most 
approved  patterns — the  English  allies  of  the  rebels  having  sup- 
plied them  with  some  of  their  best  ordnance.  The  artillery 
practice  was  excellent,  as  is  proved  by  the  fact  that  our  nine 
vessels  were  struck  five  hundred  and  twenty  times. 

The  "Herald"  says  editorially: 

The  repulse  of  Admiral  Dupont's  iron-clad  fleet  at  Charleston 
indefinitely  postpones,  we  suspect,  the  resumption  of  active 
operations  against  the  rebel  stronghold.  The  door  will,  doubt- 
less, be  kept  more  closely  guarded  th.an  heretofore  against 
English  blockade  runners,  with  their  "aid  and  comfort  to  the 
enemy ;"  but,  as  the  sickly  summer  season  iti  a  tew  weeks  will 
revisit  the  South  Carolina  seaboard,  we  conclude  that  nothing 
but  some  overwhelming  Union  successes  in  other  quarters  will 
secure  the  capture  of  Charleston  before  the  return  of  the  malaria 
killing  frosts  of  autumn.  Indeed,  it  is  broadly  hinted  in  a 
leading  abolition  journal  that  the  idea  of  a  crushing  spring  cam- 
paign has  been  abandoned  at  Washington,  and  that  probably 
our  military  operations,  until  the  end  of  the  summer,  will  be 
limited  to  pegging  a  little  here  and  there,  as  the  occasion  may 
invite  or  demand. 

The  failure  at  Charleston,  together  with  the  failure  at  Vicks- 
burgj  to  gain  any  decisive  advantage  over  the  enemy,  has,  at  all 
events,  put  an  end  to  the  late  confident  expectations  of  the 
country  in  regard  to  a  vigorous  and  decisive  prosecution  of  the 
war. 

The  "Herald"  gives  the  following  as  the  situation  : 

The  attempt  t-^  take  Charleston  is  for  the  time  abandoned. 
The  iron-clad  fleet  of  Admiral  Dupont  and  the  army  of  General 
Hunter  have  been  withdrawn  to  I'ort  Royal.  Thy  experiment 
proved  too  hazardous.  The  batteries  of  the  enemy  at  Sumter, 
Moultrie  and  Cnmming"-'  Point,  and  the  obstructions  in  the 
ch.annelfi,  presented  obstacles  too  formidable  to  be  overcome  by 
the  force  brought  against  them.  I>y  the  arrival  of  the  Arago 
from  Charleston  Bar  on  the  llth  instant,  wi  learn  these  facts. 
The  fire  from  the  batteries  was  tremendotis,  a«  the  condition  of 


fJQ  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

the  Keokuk  shows.  She  was  fairly  riddled  through  aiid  through 
with  highly  polished  steel  shot,  weighing  a  hundred  pounds 
each,  furnished  to  the  rebels  by  England.  Our  vessels  tired  in 
all  one  hundred  and  fifty-one  shots  at  tlie  forts,  while  the  latter 
struck  the  boats  over  five  hundred  and  twenty  times. 


WAILING  AND  GNASHING  OF  TEETH  BY  THE  YANKEES- 
THE  LAST  HOURS  OF  THE  KEOKUK- 

A  New  York  paper  of  the  15th  instant  has  the  fjllowing  in 
reference  to  the  sinking  of  the  Keokuk: 

Off  Charleston  Bar,  April  8. 

In  coming  out  of  the  actioa  yesterday,  the  Keokuk  had  the 
advance,  and  before  she  had  arrived  at  the  buoy  I  was  alongside 
of  her  in  a  small  boat.  It  was  nearly  dark  at  the  time;  but  I 
could  see  in  the  dim  light  that  she  had  been  the  target  of  the 
most  powerful  guns  the  rebels  could  command.  Great  holes 
were  visible  in  her  sides,  her  prow,  her  after  turret  and  her 
smoke  stack.  Her  plates  were  bent  and  bolts  protruded  here 
and  there  all  over  her.  She  Avas  making  water  rapidly  and  it  was 
plain  to  be  seen  that  she  was  used  up  and  disabled.  Before  the 
action  her  sloping  sides  and  her  turrets  had  been  "slushed" 
with  tallow,  and  to  avoid  contact  with  this  substance  I  placed 
my  feet  in  the  shot  holes,  and  literally  ascended  to  her  deck  as 
by  a  ladder.  Until  that  moment  I  confess  my  conception  of  the 
terrible  earnestness  with  which  the  rebels  had  fought  was  far 
behind  the  reality.  So  thickly  did  she  wear  her  scars  that  no 
one  had  been  able  at  that  time  to  count  them.  One  round  shot 
penetrated  her  after-turret,  the  sides  of  which,  it  will  be  re- 
membered, are  frustrums  of  cones,  while  the  turrets  of  the 
Monitors  are  perpendicular  cylinders.  Another  shot  passed 
through  her  port  bow,  and  still  another  through  her  starboard 
quarter.  These  were  all  steel  projectiles  of  one  hundred  pounds 
weight  and  polished  to  the  smoothness  of  a  knife-blade.  The 
terrible  efi^'ect  of  these  projectiles  may  be  imagined  when  it  is 
stated  that  one  of  them,  striking  the  after-turret  at  an  angle, 
when  the  vessel  was  almost  under  the  waUs  of  the  fort,  buried 
itself  in  the  iron  mail,  and  there  remains.  These  shots,  let  it  be 
remembered,  were  furnished  to  the  rebels  by  neutral  English- 
men, and  have  certainly  proved  a  striking  illustration  of  the 
fairness  and  uprightness  which  characterize  the  conduct  of  John 
Bull  toward  us  in  this  war. 


A  WAIL  FROM  THE  TRIBUNE. 
A  Hilton  Head  correspondent  of  the  New  York  York  "  Tri- 
bune "  writes  :  The  attack  upon  Charleston  has  been  made.    Our 
force  of  cfteuce,  collected  during  the  last  three  mouths,  in  the 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  77 

waters  and  upon  the  sea  islands  of  South  Carolina,  have  been 
fairly  tried  and  found  wanting.  Instead  of  the  pleasant  duty  of 
chronicling  a  triumph  to  the  Union  arms,  which  I  had  fervently 
wished  rather  than  hoped,  the  thankless  harbinger  of  ill-tidings 
devolves  upon  me.  We  have  experienced  a  bitter  repulse.  The 
iron-clads  have  disappointed  the  expectations  of  the  niost,confi- 
dent,  and  we  are  mourning  over  the  apparent  certainty'of  an 
abandonment  of  the  enterprise  of  which  the  country,  with  more 
faith  than  reason,  hoped  such  good  results. 


CHARLESTON  IMPREGNABLE. 

The  New  York  "Times"  thinks  Charleston  impregnable.  In 
speaking  of  the  fight  there  it  says : 

On  these  natural  advantages  have  been  brought  to  bear  the 
finest  engineering  skill  in  the  Confederacy  (and  it  was  the  flower 
of  the  genius  of  the  country)  during  a  period  of  two  years. 
Lee,  Beauregard  and  Ripley  in  succession  have  exhausted  their 
professional  eflbrts  to  make  it  impregnable.  ICverything  that 
the  most  improved  modern  artillery  and  unlimited  resources  of 
labor  can  do  has  been  done  to  make  the  passage  of  a  fleet  im- 
possible. And  it  is  impregnable.  Sebastopol  was  as  nothing 
to  it. 

Our  fleet  got  but  to  the  entrance  of  the  harbor.  It  never  got 
within  it.  Had  the  iron-clads  succeeded  in  passing  the  obstruc- 
tions they  would  still  have  found  those  miles  of  batteries  to 
run.  They  would  have  entered  an  Inferno  which,  like  the  por- 
tals of  Dante's  hell,  might  well  bear  the  flaming  legend,  "  Who 
enters  here  leaves  hope  behind."  Not  a  point  at  which  they 
would  not  have  found  themselves 

"  Mid  upper,  nelher,  and  surrounding  f  rcp." 

They  pass  out  of  the  focus  of  fire  of  Forts  Sumter  and  Moul- 
trie, Beauregard  and  Bee,  and  they  find  themselves  arrested 
under  the  ranges  of  Sumter,  the  Redan,  Johnston  and  Ripley, 
Pinckney,  the  Wappoo  battery,  and  the  guns  of  the  city  fall 
upon  them !  Merely  to  run  by  batteries,  as  was  done  at  the 
forts  below  New  Orleans,  is  not  a  very  difticnlt  thing  <'vcn  for 
vessels  not  iron-clad  ;  but  to  be  anchored  as  it  were  under  such 
fires  as  these,  is  what  no  ships  were  ever  called  uj^on  to  puflTer. 


IHTEBESTING    EISTORY    OF    THE    OPENING    OF    THE 
ALABAMA'S  CAREER. 

The  London  papers  all  [iublisli  the  following  st.aeraent  from 
the  late  boatswain  of  the  steamer  Alabama,  now  Eccond  officer 
of  the  British  steamer  Thistle : 

On  leaving  England,  the  290  had  a  crew  of  ninety-three  men, 
for  the  most  part  belonging  to  the  English  Naval  Reserve,  all 


7.^  TIJE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

beino-  trained  gunuers,  and  the  majority  old  men-of-war's  men. 
She  was  temporarily  commanded  by  Capt.  Bullock,  who  had 
under  him  the  proper  completement  of  commissioned  and  petty 
officers.  Captain  Bullock  having  learned  tliat  a  Federal  man-ot- 
war  (the  Tuscarora)  lay  in  wait  for  him  in  St.  George's  Channel, 
took  his  departure  by  what  is  known  as  the  North  Channel, 
thus  eluding  the  Federal  enemy ;  though,  even  had  she  been 
intercepted,  the  Northerner  would  have  found  himself  in  a 
dilemma,  as  the  290  had  a  set  of  English  papers  and  other  pre- 
sumptive proofs  of  her  neutrality,  in  the  face  of  which  it  might 
have  been  difficult  for  hqr  captor  to  have  acted.  The  290  at  the 
time  carried  no  guns  or  other  warlike  stores,  but  consisted  of 
the  hull,  spars  and  engines,  excepting,  of  course,  coal  and  other 
reqiiisites  to  enable  her  to  reach  her  destination,  which  was 
Tarissa,  one  of  the  Azores  or  "Western  Islands,  belonging  to 
Portugal.  This  destination  the  290  duly  reached,  after  a  line 
run  of  eight  days,  and  came  to  anchor  in  T.arissa  Roads,  nothing 
of  any  moment  having  occurred  to  break  the  usual  monotony  of 
a  long  sea  voyage. 

Some  time  before  the  departure  of  the  290  from  the  Mersey, 
a  large  bark  left  the  Thames  (cleared  for  Demerara,  West  In- 
dies,) to  meet  the  290  at  Tarissa,  and  there  transfer  to  the  latter 
vessel  the  guns  and  other  stores  destined  for  her,  and  which 
formed  the  cargo  of  the  bark.  Some  reason  required  to  be 
assigned  to  the  Portuguese  authorities  for  the  "290  having 
anchored  in  the  bay,  and  accordingly  the  excuse  furnished  by 
them  was  that  her  engines  had  broken  doAvn.  This  plea  was 
accepted  as  a  valid  one,  and  during  the  week  that  intervened 
between  the  arrival  at  Tarissa  of  the  290  and  the  bark,  the  crew 
of  the  fcn-mer  vessel  were  ostensibly  engaged  in  rej^airing  her 
engines,  but  really  in  preparing  her  to  receive  her  guns,  stores, 
<fcc. 

During  this  interval,  large  parties  of  the  inhabitants  of  Tarissa 
made  daily  visits  to  the  290,  their  curiosity  evidently  excited  by 
the  war-like  appearance  of  what  laid  claim  to  be  an  English 
nlerchant  vessel.  Many  pertinent  questions  were  asked  by  the 
Portuguese,  and  were  as  ingeniously  evaded  or  met  by  the  officers 
of  the  290.  Among  other  things,  the  Portuguese  wanted  to 
know  why  the  vessel  had  so  many  ports,  and  were  told  that,  as 
she  was  bound  to  a  warm  climate,  they  were  necessary  for  ven- 
tillation  ;  and  when  they  asked  why  there  was  such  a  numerous 
crew,  reply  was,  that  as  she  was  going  on  a  surveying  expedi- 
tion she  required  to  be  well  manned.  Many  similar  questions 
were  put,  and  in  like  manner  answered ;  but  it  was  all  in  vain 
to  a' tempt  to  undeceive  the  Portuguese,  and  they  would  persist 
in  calling  her  a  "frigata  luglesi." 

About  the  lapse  of  a  week  from  the  arrival  of  the  290  the 
l)ark  acsDve  mentioned  sailed  in  and  anchored,  her  Captain  al- 
leging as  a  reason  to  the  Portuguese  officials  that  his  vessel  had 


.SECON'D  AilERICAN  REVOLUTION.  79 

sprung  aleak,  which  would  require  to  be  repaired  ere  she  could 
resiime  her  voyage  ;  and  on  this  understanding  the  Portuguese 
at  onee  placed  her  in  quarantine,  (which  in  the  Azortis  lasts 
three  days.)  On  the  day  alter  the  Ixirk's  arrival  Capt.  IJullook, 
of  the  290,  being  anxious  to  get  his  guns  on  board,  hauled 
alongside  the  bark,  and  erected  a  pair  of  large  shears  to  effect 
the  transfer  of  her  cargo  from  the  bark's  hold»tothe  ?90'8  deck. 
This  brought  olF  the  Portuguese  in  a  fury  that  their  rules  should 
have  been  broken  by  the  290  having  dar<jd  to  communicate 
with  a  vessel  that  had  still  tAvodays  quarantine  to  run,  and  they 
angrily  demanded  to  know  the  reason  why,  their  regulations 
had  been  infringed.  They  were  told  that  the  bark  was  in  a 
sinking  condition,  and  the  erection  of  tlie  shears  was  accounted 
for  by  urging  the  necessity  of  an  immediate  temporary  transfer 
of  lier  cargo,  that  the  leak  might  be  reached  and  stopped,  and 
Captain  Bullock  finally  succeeded  in  bearing  down  all  opposition 
by  feigning  to  get  in  a  passion,  saying  he  was  doing  no  more 
for  ihe  bark  than  any  Englishman  would  do  for  a  countryman  in 
distress.  The  Portuguese  left  the  vessel,  and  the  transhipment 
proceeded  without  further  hindrance  from  those  on  shore. 

About  the  afternoon  of  the  second  day,  and  when  the  transfer 
was  nearly  complete,  the  British  screw  steamer  Bahama  came 
in,  having  on  board  Captain  Semmes  and  the  other  late  officers 
of  the  Sumter,  besides  the  remainder  of  tlie  290'e  armament 
and  an  additioh  of  twenty  od<l  men  to  her  crew.  On  the  Baha- 
ma's arrival  and  anchorage  on  a  somewhat  similar  p'-etext  to 
those  given  to  her  two  predecessors,  the  Portuguese  fairly  lost 
all  patience,  and  peremptorily  insisted  on  the  instant  departure 
of  all  three  vessels.  The  Bahama  at  once  communicated  with 
the  2t)0,  and  having  haixled  over  everything  destined  for  her, 
got  up  steam  and  left,  followed  by  the  290,  towing  the  now 
empty  bark.  All  three  went,  not  to  sea,  as  tliey  had  been 
ordered  to  do,  but  to  Angra  Bay,  (a  bay  in  the  same  island,  and 
only  a  few  leagues  distant  from  Tarissa  Roadf-.)  Here  they 
remained  unmolested  until  noon  the  following  day,  (a  Sunday,) 
when,  for  the  second  time,  all  three  vessels  were  ordered  out  of 
Portuguese  waters.  All  the  200'8  guns  being  now  mounted, 
and.  the  vessel  otherwise  ready  for  a  cruise,  the  order  was 
obeyed,  and  all  took  their  departure — the  bark,  as  before,  in  tow 
of  the 290,  which  having  conveyed  her  well  out  to  se.i,  cast  her 
off,  and,  with  a  favorite  breeze,  she  steered  for  Cardiff,  to  b#hg 
out  a  further  supply  of  coal  for  the  290's  use. 

The  290  and  the  Bahama  now  steamed  round  the  island,  and 
Captain  Semmes,  coming  out  ot  his  cabin,  orderod  the  First 
Lieutenant  vO  muster  the  crew  aft.  This  liaving  been  done,  and 
all  the  officers  assembled  on  the  poo]i  in  tlieir  full  uniform— i.  e.. 
Confederate  grey  frock  coat  and  trowser-— <  ii'tain  Semracfl 
enjoined  silence,  and  read  his  commission  :>  tptain  in  the 

Confoderatf"  mw      T'  «n-  ,i  do(;;?;i('Ti'    i  t'd  at  Rich- 


50  TUE  AVOilEN  OF  THE 

monfl,  and  bore  the  signature  of  "Jefterson  Davis,  President 
Confederate  States  of  America."  He  then  opened  and  read  his 
sealed  orders  from  the  President,  directing  him  to  assume  com- 
mand of  the  Confederate  sloop-of-war  Alabama,  hitherto  known 
as  the  290,  in  which,  having  been  duly  commissioned,  he  was  to 
hoist  the  Confederate  ensign  and  pennant  and  "  sink,  burn  and 
destroy  everything' which  flew  the  ensign  of  the  so-called  United 
States  of  America."  Captain  Semmes  then  ordered  the  First 
Lieutenant  to  lire  a  gun  and  run  up  the  Confederate  Hag  and 
pennant. 

The  gun  was  fired  by  the  Second  Lieutenant,  (Armstrong,  a 
relation  of  the  famous  inventor,)  and  ere  its  smoke  had  cleared 
away,  the  Stars  and  Bars  of  the  young  Confederacy  were  float- 
ing on  the  breeze,  and  the  ceremony  was  complete,  Captain 
Semmes  declaring  the  vessel,  henceforth  to  be  known  as  the 
Alabama,  to  have  been  duly  commissioned.  The  next  step  was 
formally  to  engage  the  crew  to  s6rve  and  fight  under  the  Con- 
federate flag,  which  having  been  done,  the  men  were  addressed 
by  their  Captain  in  an  eloquent  and  stirring  speech,  in  the  course 
of  which  he  said  there  were  only  four  vessels  in  the  United 
States  Navy  that  were  more  than  a  match  for  the  Alabama; 
but  he  said  that  in  an  English  built  heart  of  oak,  as  she  was,  and 
surrounded,  as  he  then  saw  himself,  by  British  hearts  of  oak,  he 
wouldn't  strike  his  newly  hois^ted  flag  for  any  one  of  the  four. 

Of  course  this  elicited  a  hearty  burst  of  cheering  for  Presi- 
dent, State  and  Captain,  and  when  it  had  subsided,  Captain 
Semmes  said  the  Bahama  was  on  the  point  of  leaving  for  Eng- 
land, and  intimated  that  if  any  of  his  crew  repented  of  the  step 
they  had  taken,  they  were  free  to  return  in  her.  This  alterna- 
tive none  would  accept,  and  Captain  Bullock  and  a  few  of  the 
other  officers  Avho  had  taken  the  290  from  England  to  the  Azores, 
find  their  occupation  gone  through  the  arrival  of  those  who 
had  held  similar  appointments  in  the  Sumter,  having  gone  on 
board  the  Bahama,  the  vessel  and  the  Alabama,  amidst  hearty 
cheering  from  the  crews  of  both,  parted  company,  the  former 
pursuing  her  course  back  to  England,  the  latter  in  chase  of  a 
Yankee  whaler,  which  she  captured  and  burned.  This  was  her 
first  prize,  and  her  subsequent  career  is  now  so  famous  as  to 
render  a  single  remark  thereon  superfluous. 

The  Alabama's  crew  receive  from  the  Confederate  Government 
half  the  value  of  each  Federal  ship  and  cargo  they  destroy,  and 
*each  of  her  crew  is  now  worth  several  hundred  pounds.  All 
obligations  have  hitherto  been  faithfully  discharged  in  gold. 
The  Alabama  is  supplied  with  coal  from  Wales,  by  three  sailing 
vessels  thus  constantly  employed. 

The  Boatswain  of  the  290,  to  whom  I  referred  abovoy- having 
been  superseded  by  the  late  Boatswain  of  the  Sumter,  returned 
to  England  in  the  Bahama. 


SFrOXD  AMKRIOAX  REVOLUlIc  (X.  ^t 

CONFEDERATE    STEAMER    ALABAMA-THE    LONDON 
"TIMES  '  ON  THE  "290." 

The  Jioudoii  "Times,"  in  an  editorial  upon  the  New  Vork 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Confederate  steamer  Alabama, 
takes  the  ground  that  no  blame  can  attach  to  the  British  Gov- 
ernment because  such  vessels  are  built  and  fitted  out  in  England. 
We  copy  a  portion  of  the  article  : 

In  the  old  days  of  Gretna  Ctreen  marriages,  when  an  enraged 
guardian  drove  up  to  Xewnnan's  stables  at  Bernet  just  in  time 
to  see  the  fugitive  ward  driven  off  by  four  speedy  grays,  he 
turned  furiously  upon  the  horsckeeper  ior  having  supplied  th** 
runaways  Anth  such  splendid  horse  llesh.  "  I  am  strictly  neu 
tral,  sir,"  said  the  master  of  the  roa<l.  "  Four  bays,  the  exact 
counterparts  in  blood  and  bone,  arc  harnessing  for  you  at  thin 
moment."  We  cannot  shut  up  our  shipping  yards,  but  all  the 
world  is  free  to  buy  in  them.  We  do  not  fit  out  ships  of-war, 
hut  sell  all  the  competent  materials  to  any  one  who  will  buy.  It 
is  for  them,  at  their  own  risk,  to  take  them  away  and  put  them 
together.  In  doing  this  wc  follow  very  high  example,  and  art- 
covered  by  very  high  authority.  In  1!=<55,  when  we  were  at  war 
with  Russia,  some  of  us  had  some  foolish  notion  that  we  ought 
to  have  the  sympathy  of  a  kindred  race  and  a  free  Government. 
We  were  irtclined  to  expostulate  wlien  we  found  America  sellint; 
to  our  enemy  the  chief  materials  by  M'hich  ho  carried  on  the 
war.  But  what  did  I\Ir.  I*resident  Pierce  answer  ?  He  showed 
us  at  once  how  wVong  we  were.  Tie  professed  the  purest  neu 
tral  policy.  .  *  *  *  * 

We  have  never  gone  beyond,  or  even  stepped  fully  up  to  the 
bounds  of  American  theory.  That  theory,  however,  is  per- 
fectly sound,  and  therefore  it  is  that  we  sell  unarmed  ships  U* 
the  world,  ''regardless,"  as  Mr,  President  Pierce  so  aptly  says, 
"  cf  the  destination  of  these  articles.'"  The  New  York  Chamber 
of  Commerce  had  better  send  Capt.  Wilkes  to  the  Alahamn. 
Wr»  cannot  undertake  to  capture  this  one  Confederate  cruiser 
Wc  arc  very  sorry  that  the  Brilliant  was  burnt,  and  8o  we  arc 
that  the  towns  on  the  Mississippi  were  burnt,  and  that  inurde)- 
and  dishonor  of  men  and  w  omen  of  Alabama  took  place.  Thesr 
scenes  are  said  to  have  suggested  the  name  of  this  terribU! 
cruiser;  but  we  know  our  duties  as  neutrals,  and  we  si(  as  di«- 
cip!o<j  nt  fhf  feet  of  President  Pie;'ce. 


CONFEDERATE  STEAMER  ALABAMA 
The  following  will   give  some  idea  of  the  rapidity  of  uiosc 
meut  of  the  Alabam.i.  and   lier    efticienry  in    operating  upon 
\ankoo  commerci-.  .  II.  W.  R.  J. 

The  Confederate  war ^slc.imer  v\!.'>'  "  "     r  suc- 

eessfuUv  on  the  oommefcr  of  {he  1  Iia» 

<; 


S2  I'HK  \VOMFN  OF  THK 

arrived  at  New  York  from  Port  Petrie,  brought  tbo  ciew  of  the 
ship  Levi  Starbuck,  which  was  captured  and  burned  by  the 
Alabama  on  the  2d  of  November,  when  five  days  out.  On  the 
8th  of  November,  the  Alabama  captured  and  burned  the  ship  T. 
B.  Watts,  of  and  for  Boston,  from  Calcutta,  with  a  valuable 
cargo  of  saltpetre,  gunny  cloth,  &c.  The  xilabaraa  put  into 
Part  Petrie  on  the  17th,  and  landed  the  Captains  and  crews  of 
the  three  ships.  The  same  afternoon  the  United  States  steamer 
San  Jacinto  arrived  outside  to  wait  for  the  Alabama — but  the 
latter  vessel  escaped  during  the  night.  Captain  Semmes  boasts' 
that  he  has  been  within  seventy  miles  of  New  York. 


THE  SEA  FIGHT  BETWEEN  THE  HATTERAS  AND  THE 

ALABAMA. 

The  Kingston  (Jamaica)  Standard,  of  January  2oth,  after 
announcing  the  arrival  of  the  Confederate  States  war  steamer 
Alabama,  at  that  port,  says  : 

Ti?lB  Alabama  is  consigned  to  Messrs.  Charles  Levy  &  Co.,  of 
this  city,  and  is  now  receiving  coals,  &c.,  at  Port  Royal,  from 
Messrs.  T.  J).  Pass  &  Co.  She  called  into  this  port  to  receive 
casual  repairs.  Captain  Semmes,  we  learn,  waited  on  his  Excel- 
lency, the  Lieutenant  Governor,  in  Spanish  Town,  yesterday. 
Several  ot  the  Confederate  officers  Avere  ashore  in  grey  uniforms, 
and  we  learn  that  the  prisoners  will  be  left  in  charge  of  the 
American  Vice  Consul  here.  We  understand  that  in  the  en- 
counter the  Alabanyi  received  some  damage  and  that  several 
shipwrights  and  caulkers  have  been  dispatched  to  Port  Royal 
to  repair  the  damages. 

We  gather  the  following  additional  jiarticulars  : 

On  Sunday,  the  11th  instant,  about  2.^  o'clock,  the  Brooklyn, 
sloop-of-war,  twenty-one  gnns,  Commodore  Belt,  lying  at  (ral- 
veston,  Texas,  discovered  a  sail,  which  she  supposed  to  be  a 
merchantman  running  the  blockade,  and  immediately  signalized 
the  Hatteras  to  give  chase.  The  Hatteras  pursued  her  nntil 
dark.  The  Alabama  then  hove  to  and  awaited  her  approach. 
The  Hatteras  was  prepared,  and  all  the  men  went  to  quarters. 
She  bespoke  the  stranger,  who  replied  she  was  "Her  Britauic 
Majesty's  steamer  Petrel."  ( ^aptain  Blake,  of  the  Hatteras 
responded.  In  the  meantime,  the  Alabama  attempted  to 
manoeuvre  to  the  stern  of  the  Hatteras.  While  off  the  port 
quarter  Capt.  Blake  said  he  would  send  his  boat  on  board  ;  and 
while  in  the  act  of  lowering  the  boat  the  Alabama  sent  a  blank 
cartridge  astern  of  the  Hatteras.  She  liailed  her  and  said  she 
need  send  no  boat,  as  she  Avas  the  Confederate  steamer  Alabama. 
Captain  Blake  then  gave  the  order  to  fire  and  the  engagement 
ensued.  In  about  ten  minutes  a  hole  was  discovered-  between 
wind  and  water,  in  the  Hatteras.  Fire  also  broke  out  in  the 
fore  peak  in  the  lower  deck  but  was  |3ut  out.     A  shot  was  sent 


SECOND  AMERICAN"  REVOLUTION.  83 

through  lier  sleaia  chest.  She  then  surrendered,  lieing  com- 
pletely disabled.  The  ;Alabnma  sent  all  her  boats  to  take  the 
crew  off,  and  in  a  lew  minutes  after  this  she  sunk.  Only  th( 
shij)  papers  were  saved. ' 

The  Alabama  made  Port  Kuyal  in  eleven  days. 

A  boat'screw  from  the  Hatteras,  seven  in  number,  is  missing, 
supposed  to  have  gone  back  to  Galveston.  F.ittle  personal  in- 
jury was  sustained  on  either  side. 


THE  STEAMER    ALABAMA     AT    KINGSTON    A   CURIOua 
INCIDENT  OF  THE  WAR. 

The  very  curious  and  oxciting  incident  of  a.cowhiding  be- 
tween two  Kingston  mei chants  had  grown  out  of  Captain 
Semmes'  visit.  It  appears  that  Capt,  Semmes  offered  for  sale 
here  the  I  nited  States  Treasury  notes  captared  from  the  steamer 
Ariel,  "and  two  merchants  of  Kingston,  in  overbidding  eacii 
other  for  thu  booty,  got  into  a  quarrel,  resulting  in  the  cow 
hiding  of  one  of  the  parties  by  the  other. 


kS  INCIDENT  CONNECTED  WITH  THE  SAILINu  Anv 
RUNNING  OF  THE  BLOCKADE  BY  THE  CONFEDERATE 
WAR  STEAMER  FLORIDA. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Charleston  Mercury,  writing  lioiu 
Mobile  under  date  of  the  19th  January,  gives  the  following  in 
teresting  news  in  relation  to  the  sailing  of  the  'Steamer  Florida 

A  premaiure  statement  appeared  in  a  Richmond  paper  severaJ 
weeks  atro  annf)uncing  the  escape  from  this  port  of  the  Con 
federate  States  steam  corvette  Flori'la,  (apt.  Maflit  commanding 
It  was  not  true,  tor  at  that  time  no  effort  had  been  made  to 
escape,  ('.apt.  Maftit  lingered  here  so  long  after  his  vessel  was 
ready  for  sea  as  to  call  upon  himself  much  criticism  and  censure, 
and  applieations  from  some  rpiarters  went  on  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Xavy  rerpiesting  his  removal  from  the  command  of  h\^ 
vessel. 

The  Secretary  at  onc«-  issiicd  the  order  relieving  him  liroin 
command.  President  Davis  was  then  absent  from  Richmond, 
and  the  Seeretary  acted  on  his  c»wn  counsel  in  the  matter  ;  but, 
h.appily  for  ^laftit.  President  Davis  arrived  in  Mobile  almost 
simultaneously  with  the  order  of  the  Seeretary.  The  facts  of 
the  delay  were  explained  to  the  President,  who  at  once  restored 
.Maftit  to  his  vessel. 

There  may  be  truth  in  tlie  m.atter,  and  even  if  true,  there  in 
much  reason  why  a  man   w}k»  w.as   going  abroad   for  a  three 
vears'  cruise  upon  the  world  of  waters,  and  in  far  distant  fceas 
should  linger  long  and  fondly  among  the  fair.     Now  he  is  gone, 
the  blockaders  are  dodged,  and  "  the  rover  m  fre<»."     I  saw  bim 


s  I  TliK  WOMF.N  OF  THE 

oui!  iii;^Ut  when  lie  was  Inddiug-  adiou  to  his  frionds.  He  said 
thai  tho  \ve.'ither  indicated  a  strong  "northeaster,"  for  which  he 
had  )>oen  Avaiting  so  long,  and  that-  he  would  he  off  in  a  few 
hours.  r»ut  the  indication  was  not  fnltilled.  The  weather 
i-hanofed,  and  he  remained  until  last  Thursday,  the  J  4th  instant, 
«  hen  he  escaped  just  before  day. 

He  aitemptod  it  on  the  night  previous,  but  the  hlo  kadeis 
discovered  him  and  signaled,  when  he  withdrew.*  Thursday 
night  was  ver}-  dark.  There  was  a  strong  blow  and  a  liailstorrn 
during  several  hours.  He  ran  out  unobserved.  I>.<t  about  four 
hours  after  his  escape,  they  cither  discovered  or  suspected  that 
ho.  was  gone,  and  the  swiftest  steamer  among  them  woitt  to  -ea, 
apparently  in  "pursuit.     She  will  hardly  catch  him. 

The  Florida  is  a  splendid  Aessel,  in  jierfect  running  and  light- 
ing trim,  and  can,  probably,  whip  any  cratt  that  she  cannot 
outrun.  Maffit  is  as  brave  as  Nelson,  as  shrewd  as  a.fos:,  and 
•iS  thorough  a  seaman  as  ever  trod  a  deck.  His  escape  cannot 
loug  remain  a  secret,  even  if  it  ])0  one  now,  for  Yankee  journals 
will  soon  teem  with  details  of  his  operations.  Those  who  know 
know  him  well  predict  for  him  a  career  as  glorious  as  that  of 
Semmes. — l^d". 


THE  TERRORS  OF  THE  SEA-CAREER  OF  THE  FIOBIDA  - 
DESCRIPTION  OF  HER  OFFICERS  AND  STYLE. 

The  Yankee  papers  have  a  new  sc.isation  in  the  Florida  and 
two  Confederate  sailing  privateers,  which  are  just  out — the 
Retribution  and  Dixie.  These  sailng  vessels  are  schooners  of 
about  1  GO  tons,  both  painted  black.  The  captain  and  crew  of 
the  brig  Estelle,  Avhich  was  destroyed  by  the  Flcnda,  have 
arrived  in  New  York.  The  Estelle  w  is  bound  for  Boston,  witli 
sugar  and  honey,  and  first  descried  tlic  Plorida  on  the  19tu  uU., 
oft'  (;.ape  Antonio.  The  following  i,  a  description  by  her  firsi 
mate  of  the  Florida's  style  of  taking  prizes  : 

The  i)rig  was  all  the  time  imder  dose  .-eefed  sails.  Captain 
Brov-:.',  her  commander,  at  first  thou:. lit  the  stranger  might  be 
the  Alabama;  but,  as  she  had  the  st \rs  and  stripes  flj'ing,  this 
opinion  gave  way  to  the  belief  of  her  being  a  Federal  cruiser 

Shortly  before  3  o'clock,  P.  M  ,  the  steamer,  which  i...y..  ome 
up  abreast  of  the  brig  to  a  distance  ol  seventy-five  yards,  fired 
a  shot  across  her  bows,  and  lowering  the  American  flag  ran  up 
that  of  the  Confederacy.  Her  guns  were  brought  to  bear  on 
the  Estelle,  whose  captain  thus  was  Tuade  aware  of  liis  fate. 
The  Estelle  at  once  backed  her  topsail  and  hove  to,  Avhen  five 
boats  were  lowered  from  the  Confederate  8teamer  and  i»ulled 
towards  the  doomed  brig.  The  second  lieutenant  of  the  Florida 
stepped  on  board,  and  respectfully  saluting  the  captain,  re- 
marked, "  Captain,  you  are  a  prize  to  the  Southern  Confederacy. 
Pack  up  your  private  property  with  all  dispatch  and  let   your 


SECOND  AMERICA:,"  EEVuLUTION.  5.5 

crew  do  the  sa'ne."     Tiiii<  order  was  at  ouce  complied  with, 
Avlien  the  crew  were  ordered  on  bi)a.rdlhc  steamer. 

The  lieutenant  seat  the  chronometer,  charts  and  instrumeutf^ 
of  the  brig  on  board  the  steamer,  and  selected  from  the  ship 
chandlery  stores  and  cargo  such  articles  as  were  wanted  on  the 
steamer.  He  then  set  his  crew  to  Avorlc  in  stripping  the  brigot 
part  of  her  rigging,  all  her  sails,  except  lorctop  gallantsail,  royal 
and  main  staysail  and  forctop  staysail,  wliich  weri>  sent  on 
board.  A  tire  was  then  kindled  on  the  deck,  both  fon*  and  aft^ 
and  in  a  few  miuu(es  tlic  brig  av;;s  a  mass  of  flanir. 

When  the  crew  of  the  brig  arrived  on  the  stiamer,  thuy  v  ere 
at,  once  inlcrmed  by  the  lirst  lieutenant  that  they  would  bo 
treated  as  prisoners  of  war,  and  allowed  the  liberty  of  the  ship, 
provided  they  vou'd  conform  to  the  rules  of  the  vessel.  The\ 
were  divided  among  the  crew  of  the  steamer  as  messmates,  and 
had  the  sanie  fare  as  their  caiHors.  Thi>  captain  of  the  brig 
was  at  once  invited  to  paitake  of  the  hosj>italities  of  the  cabin,  ' 
and  a  state-room  was  at  ouct'  arranged  for  himself  and  mate. 
The  second  mate  was  sent  to  mess  with  thi'  subaltern  uthcorn. 
The  fare  of  the  officers  and  crew  of  the  Florida  was  nearly  the 
same — salt  l)ecf,  peas  and  rice,  with  an  allow  ance  of  hard  bread. 
The  officers,  however,  said  that  in  Havana  they  would  be  fully 
Niipplied  with  all  necessaries  lor  a  long  cruise. 

The  officers  of  the  Florida  treated  their  prisoners  with  greul 
Jcli^i'^v  and  kindness  and,  dur'ug  frequent  conversations  on  thf 
r"-  -^  ;  .  ed,  with  tears  in  tlicir  fyes,  that  the  stern  necessities 
o.  ,,ar  obliged  them  to  ii,Iit  their  brethren  of  the  Xorth. 
Tliey  are  most^ly  ex-offic<vs  of  the  na\y,  and  exact  the  ^ame  dis 
fipline  of  tlieir  crew  as  on  th,'  United  States  men-of-war.  \o 
profane  or  insulting  laiigur  g<,  is  allow  ed,  and  the  offender  pun- 
ished severely. 

The  tirst  lieutenant  i<  Mr.  lleid,  who  had  just  returned  froni 
iho  Pauific.  when  he  tendered  his  resignation  to  the  I  nitcd 
States  au'^borities.  The  Ctiief  Enpncer,  Spydec,  is  a  nativcof 
middle  Tennessee,  where  he  lost  all  of  his  property.  He  is  said 
to  be  very  proficient  in  his  Vtusiness. 

The  othcers  of  the  Florid. •  state  that  they  ran  out  of  Mobile 
on  a  clear,  starlight  night,  witli  a  fresh  breeze,  and  that  they  rap 

past  seven  Federal  gunboats,  none  of  which  fired  a  sint;I<   "^hot 

at  them. 

They  were  chased  until  next  moiniug  by  two  gunboats,  bat 
t.hen  they  left  their  pursuers  far  astern  and  hull  down.     (  .iptain 

Haffit  stopped  the  steamer  until  the  Fed»'rals  were  in  full  sight. 

when  he  crowd<.'d  on  steam  until  he  lost  sight  of  them.     Tb« 

Florida's  officers  stated  that  there  were  five  more  steanurs  in 

.>[obile  ready  to  run  the  block,a<.le,  and  for  aught  they  know 

were  already  at  sea. 

The  crew  i"  a  mixture  tA'  all  nationalities,  but  the  Kogli<«li  and 

1  ish    *:■'.    .K:it   predominntps.      Tlicre   are    "ome   Ka^feni    Mi»n 


gg  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

iraong  them,  and  one  of  them  named  Layton,  a  native  of  Port- 
litnd  Maine  is  the  boatswain.  There  is  also  one  Chinaman  on 
board.  Most  of  the  o-rew  have  been  prisoners  of  war  at  the 
Xorth,  and  some  of  them  were  in  Fort  Columbus,  or  iu  tho 
Pea  Patch,  near  Philadelphia. 

They  are  well  drilled  in  the  use  of  the  guns,  and  are  far  supe- 
rior to  many  of  our  merchant  crews. 


THE  CONFEDERATE  WAR  STEAMER  FLORIDA  AT  BAR- 

BADOES. 

The  2s"ew  York  "Herahl"  of  a  recent  date  contains  the  fol- 
lowing : 

Bakhadoks,  February  2J. 

Great  is  the  excitement  in  this  fast  anchored  isle  of  Barl)adoes. 
The  rebel  steamer  Florida,  Capt.  J.  N.  Maffit,  arrived  here  in 
distress,  asking  for  coal.  It  appears  that  the  pirate  craft  has 
either  had  a  hard  mauling  or  a  rough  h.-mdling  by  the  "ocean 
monarch." 

The  Florida  seems  to  be  w;ell  disciplined,  tho  men  well  be- 
haved and  orderly,  the  officers  polite  .and  attentive. 

The  Florida  privately  takes  a  mail  for  France  and  England. 
She  went  out  iu  splendid  style. 

From  the  station  lookout  the  Florida  was  seen  at  5,  P.  M.,  to 
fire  three  vessels,  some  ten  miles  from  the  Barbadoes  shore. 

A  large  side  wheel  steamer,  presumed  to  be  the  Vandorbilt, 
went  after  the  rebel,  Avho  seemed  hove  to,  ready  fqr  a  muss. 
We  are  all  excitement  and  anxiety  here.  No  cannonading  has 
been  reported,  only  the  echo  of  one  ov  two  heavy  gun_s. 

Everybody  who  can  get  an  elevated  position  is  looking  out 
tor  the  "  sea  fight."  One  of  the  vessels  Inirned  was  a  splendid 
guano  ship,  with  guano  oul|jjard.     The  crew  are  landing. 

The  Florida  is  now  seen,  allright,  steering  north  by  east.  She 
is  bound  for  the  English  Channel.     This  is  i^nve.—A^v'il,  1P»J3. 


THE  RETRIBUTION. 

We  had  the  pleasure  yesterday  of  seeing  Capt.  Vernon-  Lock, 
of  the  well  known  privateer  Ketribution,  which  has  been  a 
terror  to  Yankee  commerce  in  the  Gulf,  only  second  to  the 
Alabama  and  Florida. 

It  is  no  secret  that  tho  Retribution  is  the  old  tug  Uncle  Ben, 
fitted  up  as  a  schooner.  That  a  vessel  of  her  class  has  been 
able  to  make  herself  such  a  terror  to  the  euem}',  speaks  volumet; 
for  the  boldtrcss  and  enterprise  of  her  officers  and  crew. 

Charleston  Cotifkr,  Apfil,  1663. 


SECOND  AMERICAN  ET"VOLrTION.  S7 

A  COMPLIMENT  TO  LIVERPOOL. 

The  Northern  papers  and  their  European  c6rrot>pontlcnts, 
referring  to  the  naval  preparations  of  the  *' Rebels,"  remarks: 

Bat  it  is  the  Liveri>ool  Southern  Association  that  the  rebels 
most  largely  owe  whatever  of  credit  and  resources  they  possese 
in  England.  Liverpool  is  bitterly  and  almost  unanimously 
rebel  in  its  sympathies,  and  throughoiit  Urcat  Britain  this 
pestilent  seaport  hao  exerted  a  wise  and  earnest  intluenco  against 
us.     Wc  are  not  likely  to  forget  it. 

A  lact  concerning  the  Alabama  deserves  to  be  stated.  The 
American  Consul  at  Liver])0()I  se.ems  to  have  made  every  effort 
to  persuade  the  British  authorities  to  })revcnt  her  from  leaving 
port  on  a  cruise  which  all  men  knew  was  to  be  piratical.  The 
Government  at  last  consented  to  interfere,  and  the  day  after  the 
Alabama  had  sailed,  issued  an  order  restraining  her  from  going 
to  sea. 

It  is  evident,  from  such  tacts  as  \}\o  above,  which  arc  impor 
taut,  and  comes  to  us  well  authenticated,  that  the  rebels  have 
no  lack  of  money  or  credit  in  Etgland.  Probably  a  considerable 
part  of  the  cotton  hypothecated  to  the  rebel  government,  is 
|)ledged  in  some  Avay  to  English  capitalists  as  security  for  ad 
vances,  and  they  in  turn  are  secured  *by  insurances  at  an 
extravagant  lu'cmium,  but  with  margin  enough  to  make  thorn 
selves  good. 


A  RATTLESNAKE  ON  THE  OCEAN. 

On  Tuesday  night,  the  privateer  Rattlesnake  ran  the  gauntlet 
of  the  blockading  Heet  at  the  mouth  of  the  Ogeechce  River  and 
nteamdd  away  on  the  broad  ocean  on  her  mission  of  destruction 
of  Yankee  commerce.  She  is  not  a  Government  war  vessel,  a^ 
waa  stated  by  one  of  our  city  cotemporaries  some  time  since, 
hut  a  privateer — about  one-fifth  of  her  stock  being  owned  in 
this  city.  The  Rattlesnake  (late  Xashville)  is  commanded  hy 
('apt.  T.  JI.  Baker,  an  experienced  and  competent  officer,  and 
more  especially  <[ualitied  fer  his  jiresent  business  by  the  brut-il 
and  inhunran  treatment  hu  has  received  at  the  han<ls  of  th< 
Yankees.  It  will  be  remembered  that  he  was  the  Captain  ul"  lh«' 
ill-fated  Savannah,  who,  with  the  rest  of  her  crew,  were  ho  long 
confined  in  chains  in  a  Northern  dungeon.  We  learn  that  he 
has  with  him  the  handcuffs  he  wore  while  und<r  the  i»rote«'tion 
of  the  Amerisan  Eagle,  and  that  he  declares  his  purpose  to  try 
them  on  several  p.airs  of  Yankee  wrists.  No  wonder  that  his 
soul  is  all  aglow  with  the  j>assion  of  revenge.  The  Rattlpsnsk<- 
is  armed  to  the  teeth  and  will  weed  a  wide  row  on  the  ocenn. 
Success  to  her. —  Columbus  Thne«f  February  20,  IPO.'l. 


gg  THE  MOMEN  OF  THE 

PROGRESS   OF   THE   WAR- AFFECTING   INCIDENT-OKE 
.  OF  THE  RESULTS  OF  THE  WAR. 

One  of  the  most  aft'ecting  incidents  of  the  brilliant  and  suo- 
ccsBful  recapture  of  Galveston  by  the  forces  under  Major  General 
Ma<rruder  Avas  the  meeting  (ah-eady  briefly  alluded  to  betweeo 
Major  Lea,  of  our  army,  with  his  eldest  and  fondly  loved  son, 
nho  "vvas  1st  Lieutenant  of  the  PTarriet  Lane.  The  Houj^ton 
"  Telegraph "  says :  .  '  .  . 

Nearly  two  years  ago  the  tather,  tlien  residing  in  Texas,  had 
w  ritten  repeatedly  to  the  son,  then  on  the  coast  uf  China,  sug- 
gesting  the  principles  that  should  determine  his  course  in  the 
then  approaching  struggle  between  the  IN'orth  and  the  South  of 
the  L^nited  iStates  and  saying  that  he  could  not  dictate  to  one  so 
long  obligated  to  act  on  his  own  judgment ;  and  that  decide  a;; 
.he  might,  such  was  his  confidence  in  his  high  consciousness  he 
would  continue  to  regard  him  with  the  respect  of  a  gentleman 
and  the  aftection  of  a  father;  but  that,  if  he  should  elect  th(? 
f^ide  of  the  enemy,  they  would  probably  never  meet  on  earth, 
unless  perchance  they  shoiild  meet  in  battle. 

The  father  has  served  nearly  eighteen  months  eastwai'd  of  the 
Mississippi,  and,  through  unsolicited  orders,  arrived  at  Houston, 
en  route  for  San  Antomo,  late  at  night  of  the  30th  ult.,  when, 
hearing  of  the  intended  attack  on  the  Harriet  Lane,  aboard  o:' 
which  he  had  heard  was  his  sou,  also  placed  there  simply  in  the 
order  of  Providence,  he  solicited  permission  to  join  the  expedi- 
tion, in  expectation  of  nursing  or  burying  his  son,  whose  courage 
was  obliged  to  expose  him  fatally  to  the  equal  daring  of  our 
Texas  boys.     During  the  tight  Major  Lea  was  ordered  by  the 
General  to  keep  a  look  out  from  a  liouse  toj)  for  all  movements 
in  the  bay.     As  soon  as  daylight  enabled  him  to  sec  that  the 
Lane  had  been  captured,  by  permission  of  the  (Tcneral,  who 
knew  nothing  of  the  expected  meeting,  he  hastened   aborrd, 
when  he  was  not  sm'prised  to  find  his  son  mortally  Avounded. 
Wading  through  blood,  amidst  the  dying  and  the  dead,  he 
reached  the  youth,  pale  and   exhausted.     "  Edward,  'tis  your 
father."     "I  know  you,  father,  but  cannot  move,"  he  said  faintly. 
''  Are  you  mortally  wounded  ?"     "  I>adly,  but  hope  not  fatally." 
"  Do  you  suffer  pain  ?"     "  Cannot  speak,"   he  whispered.     A 
stimulant  was   given   him.     "How  came   you  here,  father?" 
When  ansAvered,  a  gleam  of  surprise  and  gratification  passed 
over  his  fine  face.     He  then  expended  nearly  his  last  words  in 
making  arrangements  for  his  Avounded  comrades.     His  father 
knelt  and  blessed  him,  and  hastened  ashore  for  a  litter,  and  re- 
turned just  after  life  had  fled. 

When  told  by  the  surgeon  that  he  had  but  a  fcAV  minutes  to 
live,  and  asked  to  express  his  Avishes,  he  answered,  confidingly, 
"My  father  is  here,"  and  spoke  not  again.  He  Avas  borne  in 
procession  to  the  grave  from  the  headquarters  of  Gen,  Magruder, 
in  company  with  his  Captain,  and  they  were  buried  together, 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  89 

with   ap|.i: "iate   militai-j-  honors,   in    the   presence  of  uiany 

officers  ol"  cii  armies  and  many  irencrous  citizens,  all  of  whom 
expressec!  thoJr  deep  sympathy  with  the  bereaved  father,  who 
said  the  solemn  service  for  tlie  Kpiscopal  Chnreh  for  tho  burial 
of  the  dead,  and  then  added  this  brief  address: 

"3Iy  friends,  the  wise  man  has  said  that  there  is  ;i  titno  to 
rejoice  and  a  time  to  mourn.  Surely  this  is  a  time  when  wo 
may  weep  with  those  that  weej).  Allow  one  so  sorely  tried,  in 
this  his  willing  sacrifice,  to  beseech  you  to  believe, 'whilst  wp 
defend  our  rights  with  strong  arms  and  honest  hearts,  that  those 
we  inc'^ti  in  battle  may  also  have,  iiearls  brave  and  honest  as  onv 
own.  We  have  here  bnried  two  brave  and  honest  gontleiu»^n. 
Peace  to  their  ashes!     Tread  lightly  o'er  their  graves.     .Xmfn  ! 

INCIDENTS  OF  THE  CAPTUEE  OF  THE  HARRIET  LANE. 

Captain  ^Villiam  M.  Armstrong  Avent  on  board  tho  Harriet 
Lane  after  the  battle,  and  found,  lying  in  the  blood,  on  deck,  a 
Bible.  He  ]jic)vcd  it  up  and  remarked,  ""Now  I  am  going  to 
open  this  Bilile  this  new  year's  day,  and  the  tirst  passage  1  read 
I  will  take  as  an  omen  for  the  new  year."  He  opened  it  care 
lessly  and  tho  li'-st  passage  his  eye  fell  on  was  the  first  verse  ol" 
the  i-'Oth  chapter  of  Deuteronomy,  "  When  thou  goest  out  to 
battle  against  thine  enemies,  and  seest  horses  atid  chariots,  and 
a  people  more  than  thou,  be  not  .afraid  of  them  ;  for  the  Lord 
thy  God  is  with  thee!"  It  is  a  good  omen  as  well  a^  a  nioM 
startling  circumstance. 

One  oC  the  Tcxans  who  boarded  the  Harriet  Lane  innne 
diatcly  jum))ed  aboard,  grasped  .a  Federal  by  the  collar,  <>x- 
elairaing,  "Surrender,  or  I  will  blow  your  br.ains  out!"  The 
.ither  replied  :  "  You'd  bettor  look  at  me  first !"  Kecognition 
wa<'  instantaneous  ;  they  were  brothers  ! 


ftUEEN  OF  THE  WEST-FURTHER  PARTICULARS. 

Tiic  .Tackson  (Miss.)  "  Appeal  "  of  the  '21st  has  the  f  tllowing: 
From  a  gentleman  direct  trom  X.atchez  we  have  some  t'urther 
I'articulars  of  the  capture  of  the  Queen  of  the  West. 

.  On  Wednesday  of  last  week  the  Queen  ran  jtast  Xatche/,  and 
anchored  two  miles  below.  The  ])eSoto  followed  her,  stopping 
just  above  the  landing,  where  she  destroyed  several  flat  boats 
.md  skills.  From  one  of  the  fiats  slie  took  three  boys  jjrisoners 
who  were  raised  in  Natchez.  The  Queen  of  the  West  remained 
al  anchor  in  protecting  distance,  while  these  depredations  were 
carried  otit  by  the  DeSoto.  They  both*  then  steamed  away 
together,  the.  bovs  ha\ing  been  placed  on  the  (^ucen  of  th'- 
West. 
The  two  vessels  proceeded  down  the  river,  entered  Hed  Hiver, 


90  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

and  at  or  near  the  moxith  of  the  Atchafaylaya  Bayou,  the  Era, 
No.  o,  with  a  load  of  corn  for  Port  Hudson,  was  captured. 
Thev  w-ere  fired  upon  at  the  mouth  of  the  Atchafalaya,  by  a 
lif>-ht  battery,  when  the  Captain  of  the  Queen  was  killed.  In 
revenge,  they  steamed  down  the  bayou  an<l  utterly  destroyed 
six  plantations  by  shelling  them. 

They  pressed  the  pilot  of  the  Era,  ^'o.  5,  who  deceived  them 
as  to  the  location  and  strength  of  our  batteries.  One  of  the 
boys  captured  at  Natchez  heard  Colonel  Ellett  repeatedly  assert 
that  before  he  a\  ould  surrender  he  would  blow  the  boat  up,  but 
when  he  was  fired  upon  by  our  batteries,  his  feather  imme- 
diately wilted  and  his  only  anxiety  was  the  safety  of  his  precious 
person.  He  was  after ^vards  seen  floating  down  the  river  on  a 
bale  of  cotton.  The  courier  has  the  lollowing  report  of  the 
affair : 

The  engagemeut  lasted  about  one  hour,  when  twenty-five  of 
the  crew  were  taken  prisoners,  ten  or  twelve  drowned,  and  Col. 
Ellett,  who  was  in  command  of  the  Queen,  cowardly  forsook 
his  boat  and  floated  down  the  stream  on  a  cotton  bale.  His 
own  crew  shot  at  him  for  his  coAvardice. 

The  Queen  had  on  board  six  heavy  guns.  The  DeSoto  was 
scuttled  and  sunk  by  her  crew,  as  well  as  the  coal  boat  in  tow. 

The  Era,  No.  5,  being  in  possession  of  the  Federal  guard 
below  the  scene  of  action,  she  soon  put  out  to  the  Mississippi 
River ;  bringing  Avith  her  our  informant,  Thomas  O'Brien,  Avho 
was  afloat  in  the  river  on  a  cotton  bale,  and  Avho  brings  this 
intelligence.  About  ten  miles  below  Natchez,  the  Era,  No.  6, 
met  the  Federal  gunboat  Indianola,  carrying  four  11-inch  gims, 
and  about  two  hundred  men.  Here  both  boats  came  to  anchor, 
and  our  informant  made  his  escape. 

Young  O'Brien,  and  two  others,  were  kept  on  board  the 
Queen  of  the  West  as  prisoners,  during  the  attack  of  our  batte- 
ries. Ho  says  that  evei'y  shell  from  the  Confederate  batteries 
carried  destruction  to  the  boat  and  crew.  The  tiist  shell  com- 
pletely cleared  the  gun-deck  of  her  men,  and  the  second  or  third 
came  crashing  through  her  engines,  cutting  her  steam  pipe  in 
twain,  and  completely  disabling  the  gunboat.  She  would  soon 
be  got  off  for  repairs. 

On  the  Era,  Avhen  taken,  were  two  Confederate  oflicers  and 
t  wenty-llve  privates.     The  privates  were  paroled. 

The  victory  on  Red  River  Avas  complete.  The.  amount,  of 
stores  taken  is  large. 

The  prisoners  taken  from  the  Queen  threaten  to  shoot  Colonel 
Ellett,  for  his  desertion  of  them  aiid  cowardice,  whenever  they 
overtake  him. 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  91 

THE  CAPTURE  OF  THE  UHITED  STATES  GUNBOAT  INDI- 
ANOLA  ON  THE  MISSISSIPPI-ENEMIES  ACCOUBT. 

WAsHiNtiTOX,  M:ircli  '2,  lS«io. 

The  j^iinhoat  Indiauola  lias?  been  taken  by  the  rebels  below 
Vicksbnrjj.  Two  or  throe  rebel  steamers,  prepared  in  Galveston 
style,  and  filled  with  armed  men,  fastened  npon  the  Indianolf 
and  oaptnred  her.  She  is  iron  elad.  In  conjunction  "with  the 
<^ueen  of  the- West,  and  the  vessels  originally  ]K)ssessed  by  the 
rebels,  they  now  have  quite  a  tlcct  below  VicksburLj;,  and  it  will  be 
necessary  for  Admiral  Porter  to  ii^cnd  down  seven  gunboatb  at 
once  and  clear  out  the  reljol  niuS(juito  tieet.  Their  oj»eration^ 
show  the  energy  of  des])air,  and  our  own  should  be  prompt  and 
powerful  to  crush  out  their  last  hope. 

The  language  of  the  correspondent  of  the  above  item  lathei 
betrays  a  misgiving  and  a  feeling  bordering  upon  the  verge  of 
despair,  seeing  that  we  are  terribly  in  earnest  to  eslablish  ouv 
mdependence  and  free  ourselves  from  tyranny  and  despotism, 
and  in  future  avoid  corrupt  association <.  Pointing  and  debasing 
intercourse  with  a  hated  race.  H.  "\V.  K.  J. 


SHIPS  AGAINST  FORTS. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Savannah  "  Rejmblican  "'  gi><'-  ini 
interesting  review  of  the  defence  of  Fort  MciMlister: 

The  defence  of  Fort  McAllister  is  one  of  historic  intere^t  and 
niarkb  .'i  historic  period,  l>ecause  it  was  a  desperate  struggle 
against  odds  never  before  encountered.  It  stands  forth  in  .soli 
tary  pie-cininence,  and  can  only  be  <-ompared  with  future  de 
fences  of  like  character.  The  annals  of  all  the  past  furnish  no 
parallel  to  it.  In  the  history  of  two  or  three  hundred  sieges, 
from  the  era  of  Louis  XI\',  down  to  our  day,  no  approi>riat«' 
standard  of  comi)arison  can  be  found,  'fhal  history  appertains 
generally  to  land  attack  and  defence.  This  is  the  old  <(U(  stion 
of  ships  against  fortifications  revived  under  an  asjtect  absolutely 
novel,  -\mong  the  more  prominent  instances  of  this  description 
are,  the  attack  of  Lord  K.vmouthon  Algiers  in  the  last  century ; 
that  of  Lord  Xelson  on  the  Crown  Batteries  of  Copenhagen 
about  the  beginning  of  this,  and  the  comjiaratively  recent  attack 
by  Admiral  Napier  on  the  defences  of  St.  Jean  d'Acre  on  th< 
ooast  of  Syria.  There  are  other  cases  less  signal,  as  that  ai 
Xew  London  during  the  war  <if  ]yi-,  when  l\vf»  18-ponndcr 
guns  beat  off  two  IJritish  sloops-of-war.  Then,  the  ships  had 
wooden  walls,  and  in  gejieral  their  projectiles  w«'re  round  shot 
.  of  small  dimensions.  Tlie  g;illant  defence  of  Vicksbnrg  has 
been  justly  extolled,  but  ^\•hilc  the  attack  theri  was  by  no  means 
80  formidable  as  that  of  Gcuchis  Point,  the  defence  v.m'-  made 
KnHer  (5oTiditions  vastly  mofc  favorable. 


92  ,  THE  ^^'oME^'  of  the 

Fort  McAllister,  however,  is  a  bimple  irregular  eartlnvork,  or 
field  fortification,  but  the  parajiets  are  unusually  thick  ana 
Btron«4.  It  is  quite  open  in  the  rear,  and  its  Vatteries  are  not 
cap-cnfated.  The  embrasures  in  Avhich  the  heaviest  guns  are 
placed  are  protected  by  traverses  from  an  enfilading  fire,  but 
they  are  necessarily  exposed  to  a  direct  one.  This  field  work 
has  grown  to  its  existing  proportions  by  such  successive  adora- 
tions as  necessity  has  dictated,  receiving  its  finishing  touches 
froiB  the  plastic  hands  of- Captain  McGrady.  It  ^tould  be  im- 
proper^ to  advert  here  to  the  additioiai  development  whicl» 
fhes^c  entrenchments  are  now  reg^iving.'^;  It  may  suffice  to  say 
(hat  on  the  ;id  instant  it  was  far  from  formidable.  The  action 
was  chiefly  maintained  by  its  32-pounder  rifled  gun  and  the 
favorite  I'i-pounder.  One  of  the  traverse  wheels  of  this  last 
gun  having  been  broken  by  a  shell,  it  was  replaced  under  fire. 
The  8-inch  gun,  which  did  the  best  execution  during  the  en 
vagement  ne.xt  previous,  was  dismounted  before  uxeridian,  by  a 
shot  Avhich  struck  one  of  the  diagonal  braces.  It  was  mounted 
.igain  daring  the  night  upon  a  carriage  sent  down  from  Savan- 
nah, The  10-inch  gun,  fired  at  an  elevation  of  tJ.SO,  generally 
overshot  the  tower  aimed  at.  It  had  been  but  recently  placed  , 
in  battery,  and  practice  with  it  was  limited. 

Opposed  to  the  fort  were  three  iron-clad  gunboats  and  three 
mortar  boats,  the  former  laiinching,  with  a  direct  horizontal 
fire,  projectiles  more  formidable  than  any  yet  known  ;  the  latter 
throwing  shells  with  curved  fires,  from  six  o'clock,  P,  M.,  during 
all  the  night,  which  did  not  prevent,  however,  the  reparation  of 
all  the  damage  done  during  the  day.  In  the  Engineer's  report, 
the  iron-clads — distant  from  1,400  to  1,'JOO  yards — arc  num- 
bered J,  2  and  3,  No.  1  being  up  stream.  The  ])rojectiles  hurled 
by  No.  1  were  hollow  shot  and  shells  of  fifteen  inches  diameter, 
and  also  solid  shot  and  shells  of  eleven  inches.  Those  of  No.  i' 
were  cylindro-conoidal  percussion  shells,  eight  inches  diameter 
at  the  base  and  seventeen  inches  in  length,  and  eleven  inch  solid 
shot  and  shells.  No.  3  threw  cylindro-concidal  shells  like  the 
above.  This  fire  was  maintained  nearly  eight  hours,  with 
average  intervals  of  ten  minutes.  The  most  active  fire  appears 
to  have  been  concentrated  on  the  42-pounder,  in  the  immediate 
vicinity  of  which  twenty-one  projectiles  fell.  At  this  and  most 
other  points  the  happy  escape  of  the  garrison  seems_ almost 
|iroviclential. 

The  fire  of  the  fort  Avas  concentrated  on  Mouitor'No.  1,  thv 
men  in  No.  3,  not  on  duty,  quietly  looking  on  from  their  deck. 
Lieut.  EUerby.,  from  his  position  in  the  marsh  on  the  left  bank 
of  the  Ogeechee,  only  350  yards  distant  from  No.  3,  reports 
that  he  could  hear  the  words  of  command — that  her  ports  were 
always  open,  that  the  guns  were  run  regularly  in  and  out  of 
battery,  the  rammer  staff  and  the  hands  of  the  men  being  visi- 
ble, and  that  the  guns  wel'c  therefore  loaded  at  the  muz/Je. 


sK(-<-»NT>  AMERfPAN  KF.VOI.UTIOX.  93 

()n«  shot  iVom  the  fori  struck  tlio  tower  a  few  iiu-lica  from  one 
of  the  port  holes. 

The  revolutions  ot  the  tower  of  No.  1  were  <>bserve<l  to  hi- 
often  tempornrily  arrested  either  from  design  or  injury  sus 
tained.  The  last  shot  from  the  42-pounder  struck  No.  1  low 
down,  near  the  water  line.  This  was  followed  l)y  an  escape  oi 
;sterim  and  the  sudden  appearance  and  disappearance  of  thre(^ 
intn.  After  this  she  l>low  her  whistle,  when  No.  2,  which  had 
already  weighed  anchor  and  started  down  stream,  returned  and 
took  her  jilace.  Meanwhile  No.  1  retiring  dischargcfl  her  guns 
without  aim  or  oltject. —  .l/a/*c//,  ]  SOn. 


THE  BATTLE  OF  GENESIS  POINT. 

Gen.  Heauregard  has  issued  the  following  order,  conveying  a 
well  merited  tribute  to  the  skill  and  gallantry  of  the  garrison  ol 
Fort  McAllister : 

nK\r»Qr\rtTKKs  DKrAKTMKxr  ok  S.  C,  Ga.  ani>  Fj  v.,  | 
CJiarlcston,  S.  C,  February  <?,  ^><C,■',.      ') 
^enerctl  Ordrrs,  Ao.  2n. 

The  Commanding  General  annoimces  lo  tlic  forces,  with  s.itih 
taction  and  pride,  the  results  of  the  recent  encounter  of  oui 
battery  at  Genesis  Point,  Georgia,  with  an  iron-clad  of  tht 
Monitor  class — results  only  alloyed  by  the  life-bloocl  of  the  f^n! 
lant  commander,  the  late  Alajor  .fohn  B.  Gallic. 

For  hours  the  most  formidable  voss(;l  of  her  class  hurled 
missils  of  the  heaviest  calibre  ever  used  in  modern  warfare,  at 
the  weak  parapet  of  the  battery,  which  was  almost  demolished  ; 
but  standmg  at  their  guns  as  become  men  fighting  for  homes, 
for  honor,  and  for  independence,  the  garrison  replied  with  sncli 
♦•ffoct  as  to  crip[)le  and  beat  back  their  adversary,  clad  thouirl) 
in  impenetrable  armor,  and  armed  with  15  and  11 -inch  guns, 
aupponed  by  mortar  boats,  whose  practice  was  of  nncommcn 
precision. 

The  thanks  of  the  country  are  <lue  to  this  intrepid  garrison, 
w^ho  have  thus  shown  what  brave  men  may  wit  list  and  and  nc 
complish.  despit  '  apparent  odds. 

"Fort  McAllister"  will  be  inscribed 'on  the  tlag:.  of  ail  tluj 
troops  engaged  in  the  defence  of  the  Itattery.         . 

I'.y  command  of  General  Bfaurec;ard. 

(Signed)  THOMAS  .Fr)KI)A\,  (  l,i<-f  ol   Siatl. 


INTERESTINi  SKETCH  OF  INORAHAM  AND  RUTLEDOE. 

We  take  the  f<•lIowin^  evtrads  fi oin  bj.igraphicnl  «-k..trhes 
which  have  appeared  in  Yankee  papers  in  reference  U<  the  fighi 
off  Charleston,  in  which  the  Meroedila  wan  sunk  into  Port 
Royal: 


^i  THE    WOMEN  OF  THK 

SKKXrH  OF  rOilMODOKE  INOUAHAM. 

Comiuftdoro  Duncan  N.  Ingraham,  who  is  over  sixty  years  of 
agf,  is  the  son  of  the  \i\te  Xatiianiel  Ingraham,  Esq.,  of  Charles 
ton,  S.  C,  and  )iolongs  to  a  family  eminently  naval  in  its  char- 
acter. All  of  them,  with  one  exception,  were  officers  in  the 
navy.  His  father  being  the  intimate  friend  of  Captain  Paul 
Jones,  volunteered  under  his  command,  when  he  left  France  in 
the  Bon  Homme  Richard,  in  1779,  and  tought  with  him  in  the 
rjattle  with  the  British  frigate  Serapis,  one  of  the  most  dt  sperate 
battles  in  the  annals  of  naval  warfare.  His  uncle,  Capt.  Joseph' 
Ingraham,  United  States  Navy,  was  lost  in  the  United  States 
ship  Pickering,  which  went  down  at  sea,  and  was  never  heard 
ol,  at  the  beginning  of  this  centurv-  His  cousin,  William  In- 
graham, was  killed  at  the  age  of  twenty  when  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  United  States  Navy. 

The  sole  exception  in  the  family  was  his  uncle,  Duncan  Ingra 
ham,  Esq.,  from  whom  he  received  his  name.  He  was  one  qi 
the  most  accomplished  gentlemen  of  his  day,  and  though  inti 
mate  with  the  leading  political  mvn  of  our  country,  yet  from 
taste  and  eai'ly  associations  he  was  a  loyalist  in  his  views.  At 
the  opening  of  the  Revolution  in  1774,  he  went  to  Europe,  and 
remained  there  until  its  close.  John  Adams,  wlicn  Commis- 
sioner to  France  in  1779,  frequently  speaks  of  hiuT  in  his  diary 
as  his  associate  in  Paris.  He  returned,  however,  to  this  i.'ountry 
in  1784,  gave  in  his  adherence  to  the  CTOvernment,  and  permit 
ted  his  son  to  enter  the  navy — the  Lieut.  William  Ingraham 
whom  we  have  mentioned  as  being  killed  in  tha  service. 

Capt.  D.  X.  Ingraham  received  his  Midshipman's  warrant  ai 
The  age  of  nine  years,  on  the  18th  of  June,  1812,  during  our 
last  war  with  Great  Britain.  Commodore  Smith,  of  South 
Carolina,  the  intimate  friend  of  his  father,  being  about  to  sail  in 
the  frigate  Congress,  requested  Mr.  Ingraham  to  allow  him  to 
take  his  son  with  him.  "  We  shall  probably  have  an  engage 
ment,"  said  he,  "and  it  will  do  him  good."  He  accordingly 
went  to  sea  at  once,  at  that  tender  age,  and  remained  in  active 
service  for  two  years,  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  then  re 
turned  home  at  the  age  of  eleven,  and  resumed  his  education  at 
school.  Since  then  he  has  most  of  the  time  been  employed  in 
active  duty.  He  commanded  the  ill-fated  Somers  in  the  block 
ade  duty  at  Vera  Cruz  and  other  parts  of  the  Gulf  during  the 
whole  of  the  INIexican  war,  and  being  prostrated  by  sickness, 
was  sent  home  but  a  short  time  belore  she  was  lost.  For  two 
ears  previous  to  his  sailing  for  the  Mediterranean,  in  the  St. 

ouis,  he  was  attached  to  the  Navy  Yard  at  Philadelphia,  the 
society  of  which  city  will  long  remember  him  and  his  accom 
plished  family. 

He  was  in  command  of  the  St.  Louis  in  1853  in  the  harbor  of 
Smyrna,  when  he  made  his  name  so  famous  in  connection  with 
the  Costa  exploit  while  at  that  port.     He  bearded  the  lion  in 


i 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  •  95 

his  den,  demanding  and  obtaining  from  the  Austrian  Govern- 
ment the  release  of  Costa  as  an  American  citizen.  On  the  15th 
of  September,  1855,  he  was  promoted  to  a  Captaincy,  and  after 
an  interval  of  inactivity  was,  on  the  10th  of  March,  1850,  at 
tached  to  the  Bureau  of  Ordnance  as  its  Chief,  lie  hejd  thin 
position  at  a  salary  of  n:^,500  a  year  when  the  rebellion  broke 
out,  when  he,  like,  mauy  other  traitors,  forsook  the  flag  under 
which  ho  had  so  long  fought  and  through  which  he  had  received 
many  honors,  to  join  the  cause  of  the  rebels. 

Captain  Ingraham  married  Harriet  Kutledge  J^aurens  of 
South  Carolina^  a  grand-daughter,  on  the  paternal  side,  of  Henry 
Laurens,  the  President  of  the  first  Continental  Congress,  and 
who  afterwards  was  (%ptured  by  a  British  frigate  while  on  his 
way  to  France  as  American  Commi>sioner,  and  confined  for  a 
long  time  in  the  Tower  of  London.  On  the  maternal  side  she 
is  the  grand-daughter  of  Edward  Rutledge,  one  of  the  signers 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  His  eldest  son,  Henry 
Laurens  Ingraham,  was  a  liieutenant  of  the  Afarine  Corps  when 
the  rebellion  broke  out. 

It  is  a  curious  circumstance,  that  by  intermarriage  wilh  the 
American  fixmily,  the  Ingraham  blood  flows  in  the  veins  of  some 
of  the  most  distinguished  officers  of  the  British  Xavy.  Among 
those  M'as  the  late  Captain  Marryatt,  C,  B.,  (the  author,)  and 
Sir  Edward  Belcher,  K.  C.  ]».,  who  i"inm:.i)ded  the  exploring 
expedition  round  the  world,  and  wb(t  in  lSy3  commanded  the 
Arctic  (expedition,  sent  out  by  the  Hi  iiish  Admiralty,  in  pcarch 
of  Sir  John  Franklin.  The  grand-mother  '.f  both  these  ofliccr^ 
was  an  Ingraham,  the  near  relative  of  Commodore  Ingr.aham. 

As  a  resume,  it  may  be  as  well  to  state  that  he  was  in  the 
L^nited  States  service  nearly  fifty  years,  fourteen  of  wliich  were 
spent  at  sea,  nine  on  shore  and  other  duty,  and  the  remainder 
unemployed,  although  receiving  pay.  More  than  half  his  time 
he  accepted  the  pay  of  the  United  States  for  doing  noililnf;  el«e 
than  seeking  the  best  means  to  ruin  and  betray  her. 

SKKTC  II  OF  TAin  ATX  Kl'TLKPHE. 

Tlie  ri'bel  Captain  John  Rutledge  was  formerly  an  ofH.ir  m 
the  Ignited  States  Xavy.  He  is  a  native  and  citizen  of  South 
Carolin.a,  from  which  Stato  he  was  appointed  to  the  navy  on  the 
9th  of  April,  1R''..5.  On  the  2l8tof  June,  1P41,  he  was  war 
ranted  .as  a  Past  ^Midshipman,  and  on  the  7th  of  .January,  1849, 
was  promoted  to  a  Lieutenancy,  which  r.ink  he  held  when  th<: 
rebellion  broRc  out.  Fp  to  that  time  he  has  )ieen  nearly  twenty 
six  vears  in  the  Fnited  Stales  service,  eighteen  yeirs  of  whicli 
has  Itecn  spent  at  sea,  three  on  phorc  and  other  <lnly,  and  the 
remainder  unemployc<l.  lie  has  seen  a  fair  amount  of  sorvice 
under  the  stars  and  stripes,  and  has  now  warrcl  U  flag 

which  had  protected  him,  and  which  he  has  so  'i 

Charleston  Cmtrier^  Ftbrtiory^  1^03. 


96  THK  WOMKX  OF  THF. 

THE  UNITED  STATES  AND  CONFEDERATE   NAVAL 

roncEs. 

'J'iie  uaval  loices  of  Iho  Cuufedcrate  Stales  and  Krancu  com- 
pared with  the  navy  of  the  defunct  Ignited  States.  A  signifi 
cant  comparison,  inasmuch  as  it  was  made  by  a  presumptuous 
Vankee.  I'artial  admission  of  l)lockades  havino;  been  raised  by 
the  growing  power  of  the  Confederate  navy  forces. 

Fl.  \\.  K.  J. 

A  writer  in  the  New.  York  "Sunday  jMercury,"  of  February 
•i'^,  in  calliu::;-  attention  to  the  tlireatened  conflict  between  the 
United  States  and  France,  sums  uj)  tl*  total  numlx'r  of  vessels 
of  the  French  navy  at  four  hundred  and  ei_i>hty-nine,  including 
six  formidable  iron-cased  frigates  and  fourteen  iron-plated  bat- 
teries. This  immense  force,  he  says,  would  be  used  against  tlie 
Lnited  States  in  connection  with  the  Confederates.     Ke  says : 

At  the  outset  of  hostilities  between  Napoleon  III,  and  the 
Federal  Government,  the  latter  would  be  found  the  jsoorer  pre- 
pared for  them — being  vulnerable  at  a  dozen  different  point'* 
between  Portland  and  New"  Orleans.  Our  blockading  fleet, 
too,  would  have  fearful  odds  to  contend  with  should  tlie  Impe- 
rial will  offer  to  enter  the  sealed  ports  of  the  Soutliern  States. 
U"e  possess  all  the  national  defences,  and  must  protect  all  ex- 
cept those  located  at  four  points,  viz:  Wilmington,  Charleston, 
Mobile  and  Galveston.  Where  his  jVfajesty  would  first  show 
his  hostile  colors  is  a  matter  beyond  conjecture;  consequently, 
)>rovision  to  meet  him  at  all  points  is  imperatively  demanded. 
Still,  there  is  hope  for  us  in  the  future,  as  may  be  discovered 
from  reflection  upon  the  character  which  the  war  would  assume, 
and  our  resources  in  men  and  shii)S.  The  main  difliculty  in 
eno-aging  in  the  contest  would  arise  from  our  deficiency  in 
ordnance.  We  must  meet  this  want,  however,  and  we  there- 
fore proceed  to  show  what  we  may  do  presuming  the  necessary 
provision  to  have  been  made. 

The  nnvy  of  the  United  States  is  rapidly  increasing,  and,  in 
the  right  direction.  We  find  the  following  list  of  iron  dads 
afloat,  or  near  completion  : 

Agamentious,  Benton,  Baron  DcKalb,  Chillicothe,  Chickasaw, 
('atskill,  Camanehe,  Cairo,  Caroudelet,  Circinnati,  Canonicns, 
Catawba,  Dictator,  Dunderberg,  Essex,  Galena,  Keokuk 
(-Nloodua,)  Kickapoo,  Lexington,  Lehigh,  Louisville,  Monodnck, 
-Nlaretta,  Manhattan,  ]\[ahopac,  Moynayunk,  Miantonoraah,  Mil- 
waukic,  Montauk,  Nantucket,  Nahant,  Neosho,  New  Ironsides, 
Ozark,  Osage,  Onondaga,  Patapsco,  Passaic,  Puritan,  Pittsburg, 
Roanoke,  Sandusky,  Sangamon,  Wchawken,  Winniebago. 

RAM    <il,XnOAX.S    AND    BATTEKIKS   AFLOAT,  OK  ^EAK    (  OMrLETION. 

General  Bragg,  General  Price,  General  Pillow,  Lioness,  Queen 
of  the  West,  Switzerland,  Lafayette,  Little  Rebel,  Sampson. 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  97 

Making  a  f^rancl  total  of  the  iron-clad  fleet,  soon  to  be  ready, 
54  vessels.  The  Furitan  and  Dictator  are  designated  to  be  pe- 
culiarly formidable.  They  measure  over  3,000  tons,  are  to  be 
^rmed  with  ordnance  capable  of  throwing  a  two  ton  shot,  and 
will  be  provided  with  exceedingly  sharji  and  strong  prows. 

"With  those'  now  building,  the  total  estimate  of  our  naval 
force,  including  transports  and  receiving  ships,  is  swt  down  at 
390  vessels. 

THE  COXFEDERATE  NAVAL  FOIK  K. 

The  Confederate  Navy  is  also  a  rapidly  growing  power.  On 
the  ocean,  already,  the  rebel  mark  has  been  made  by  the  Ala- 
bama, Captain  Semmes ;  tlic  Oreto  (Florida,)  Captain  Xewland 
Maffit  (son  of  the  famous  ^lethodist  ])reacher,)  and  the  Retribu- 
tion, Captain's  name  unknown.  ,  In  Charleston  harl)or  there  are 
three  ironclads,  steamers  of  course,  the  Palmetto  State,  Captain 
Rutledge,  Chicora,  Captain  Tucker,  and  City  of  Charleston ; 
besides  three  or  four  more  small  steamers,  such  as  the  General 
Clinch,  Etiwan  and  Chesterfield,  and  the  celebrated  floating  bat- 
tery which  did  such  etfective  execution  during  tlie  Fort  Sumter 
bombardment.  At  Richmond,  Merrimac  No.  2  is  sujvnosed  to 
be  watching  a  favorable  opportunity  for  coming  out.  Our  Gov- 
ernment constantly  keeps  a  blockading  fle^t  of  one  iron-clad 
and  a  dozen  old  style  war  vessels  at  the  mouth  of  the  James 
River  to  prevent  her  escape,  which  looks  as  if  she  were  rated  a 
pretty  dangerous  adversary.  There  is  also  the  City  of  Rich- 
mond, her  consort,  penned  in.  At  Savannah  the  ram  Fingal 
lies  penhi.  She  is  supposed  to  be  a  magnificent  crat\,  very 
powerfully  armed,  and  was  altered  from  an  English  vessel  of 
superior  build.  The  Nashville  has  done,  and  may  yet  render, 
eignal  service  to  the  rebels.  The  Thunderbolt  is  a  sui)erior  ves- 
sel, now  being  built.  At  Mobile  there  are  said  to  be  three  iron- 
clad gunboats  under  way,  that  are  to  be  ])rovided  with  the  best 
Whitworth,  Blakeley  and  Armstrong  guns.  The  Sumter  is  still 
an  object  of  Federal  attention  at  Gibraltar,  where  we  kept  a 
*'  spotter  "  in  constant  attendance.  The  Harriet  Lane  is  now  in 
the  hands  of  the  enemy.  Besides  these  vessels,  the  rebels  have 
two  or  three  efficient  musquito  fleets  in  the  Gulf  harbors,  and 
gome  eftective  batteries  and  rams,  good  in  helping  to  raise 
blockadfs,  or  disposing  the  entrance  of  light  gunboat*. 

To  recapitulate  the  Confederate  maritime  strength,  we  find 
that  they  possess : 

Cruisers,  4  ;  Iron-clads,  8  ;  Rams,  2 ;  Gunboat^  and  transports, 
5  ;  Harbor  fleets,  of  say,  25.    Total  44. 

W14EUE  NAPOI.KON  WOUI.n  KK.HT  I ■^,  ANi>  M'.n 

It  is  evident  that  were  he  to  undertake  hostilities  against  us 
it  w^ould  be  in  the  interest  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  that 
he  would,  with  their  assistance,  raise  the  blockade  and  land 
troops  in  different  portions  of  their  rebellious  territory.     Aj^in, 


08  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

'-hese  "wc  could  readily  tight— not  one  but  two  millious  of  men, 
or  even  more  could  doubtless  be  had  to  sustain  the  Government 
against  the  double  foe. 

The  North  would  unite  without  delay — political  grievancos 
would  be  again  buried,  as  they  Avere  after  the  first  gun  at  Sum- 
ter, and  Napoleon  would  find  himself  the  cause  of  the  speedy 
and  sure  overthrow  of  the  Confeder<acy,  which  he  would  be 
fighting  to  sustain.  But  at  sea  his  power  might  aftord  us  more 
apprehension ;  and  self-defence  would  compel  us  to  swarm  the 
Atlantic  with  prjvateers.  Tfie  conflict  would  be  desperate  in 
character ;  and,  undoubtedly,  completely  stagnate  the  commerce 
of  both  countries.  But  France  could  never  enter  our  harbors 
except  with  lighter  draught  vessels  than  those  she  is  now  build- 
ing, unless  in  rare  cases.  Light  gunboats  alone  could  cross  our 
bars,  and  what  could  be  done  yD  check  their  progress  and 
eventually  conquer  them,  besides  opposing  similar  vessels  to 
them,  has  been  shown  in  our  suggestions  about  the  proper  mode 
of  defending  New  York.  In  the  use  of  cruisers  we  should  find 
ourselves  able  to  do  more  damage  along  the  hostile  coast,  and 
and  in  the  very  ports  of  France,  than  we  would  be  likely  to  be 
called  upon  to  sustain  ourselves  from  the  nature  of  the  contest. 
The  Apostle  of  the  Latin  race,  as  he  is  now  religiously  termed, 
would  do  well  to  weigh  the  case  carefully  before  entering  into 
active  alliance  with  the  bastard  Government  at  Richmond,  a«d 
making  common  cause  with  it  against  a  Republic  whose  recu- 
perative powers  and  unceasing  energy  has  been  the  wonder  and 
admiration  of  European  nations  in  an  especial  manner  during^ 
the  last  two  years. 

England's  position  in  the  event  of  the  struggle. 

The  policy  which  England  would  be  apt  to  pursue,  in  the 
event  of  her  taking  up  arms  against  France,  is  almost  beyond 
fathom.  *  That  she  w^ould  rejoice  at  our  accumulating  troubles, 
is  a  matter  of  course ;  but  whether  she  w^ould  seek  to  profit  by 
the  opportunity  in  a  manner  other  than  by  endeavoring  to  make 
money  in  bestowing  aid  and  raatejjal  to  all  parties  as  long  as 
she  could,  is  a  point  that  cannot  yet  be  discussed.  Possibly 
she  would  deem  the  time  come  ior  her  to  strike  that  cherished 
Wow  at  her  dangerous  rival,  of  which  we  have  heard  so  much, 
and  would  place  herself  on  our  side  for  the  purpose.  This 
would  involve  the  Avhole  world  in  the  most  tremendous  conflict 
ever  waged,  and  lead  to  an  unheard  of  amount  of  desolation  on 
both  continents.  But  soimd  judgment  must  argue  strongly 
against  her  adopting  any  course  but  that  which  she  has  found 
to  pay  so  well,  and  whicli  goes  bv  the  name  of  "  strict  neu- 
trality." •       ^  '  •• 

Our  enemy  in  the  above  account,  dated  February  22,  1863,  of 
naval  forces,  has  not  given  us  credit  for  four  or  five  of  the  most 
formidable   gxmboats   we  have  recently  captured  out  of  his 


SECOND  AMERICAN  BEVOLUTION.  99 

would-be  ail-powerfuJ  navy  ;  among  them  are  the  Queen  of  the 
West,  Indiaiiola,  Isaac  Smith  and  several  others.  The  Harriet 
Lane  is  the  only  one  spoken  of  in  the  above  account  as  being  in 
cur  possession.  Seven  ot  eight  of  the  enemies  gunboats  have 
been  sunk  in  attempting  to  pass  the  batteries  at  Vicksburg 
(luring  the  past  two  months,  among  which  are  several  of  the 
formidable  iron-elads  mentioned  in  the  above  list,  to  wit:  the 
Benton,  Cincinnati,  Galena,  Montauk,  &c.  During  the  past  few 
months  we  have  captured  and  sunk  more  gunboats  and  iron  dads 
than  the  enemy  could  possibly  build  in  twice  the  length  of  time 
that  was  required  for  us  to  capture  and  destroy  them. 

ir.  w.  R.  J. 

Tiie  blockade  on  the  coast  of  Texas  has  been  raised,  January, 
1863,  by  Major  General  Magruder,  who  immediately  isgued  a 
proclansation  declaring  that  as  the  ports  of  Sabine  Pass,  Lavaca 
and  Velasco,  on  the  coast  of  Texas,  have  ceased  to  be  actually 
blockaded  by  the  forced  withdrawal  of  the  enemy's  fleet  from 
the  same,  he  invites  friendly  neutral  nations  to  resume  commer- 
cial intercourse  with  these  ports  until  on  actual  blockade  has 
been  re-established  with  the  usual  notice  demanded  by  the  laws 
of  nations. 


A   DITTY  PARAMOUNT    TO  EVERY   CONSIDERATION  OF 
PROFIT- AN  APPEAL  TO  RAISE  BREADSTUFFS. 

A  wise  man  may  learn  not  only  from  a  fool,  but  from  his  en- 
emy, and  nations  m.iy  act  upon  and  derive  benefit  from  the 
same  principle.  With  this  object  in  vie^w,  we  give  below  an 
appeal  to  Northern  and  Western  farmers,  from  the  pen  of  one 
of  them  who  evidently  sees  breakers  ahead  of  the  section,  to 
"Plant  Corn.'"  Our  jilanters  and  small  farmers  may  every- 
where benefit  by  it,  and  we  trust  they  will.  They 
hardly  realize  the  advantage  they  possess  over  the  Nortli 
jn  producing  bre.idstufls.  There  the  farmers  can  make  but  a 
wngle  crop  of  anything  u[>on  the  same  ground,  and  it  njust  all 
be  planted  within  .t  given,  and  very  brief  period,  or  the  early 
frosts  will  kill  it.  How  different  with  the  agriculturists  of  the 
South  I  They  may  plant  some  kind  of  food-producing  crops 
during  almost  any  month  of  the  year. 

Hitherto,  very  little  attention,  comparitively,  has  be«n  given 
to  this  subject,  planters  depending  in  many  instances,  almost 
entirely  upon  the  West  lor  their  provisionn,  and  others  to  a 
greater  or  less  extent.  All  this,  however,  must  now  \te 
changed,  and  the  JSoutherti  Stat'«  must  rely  wholly  upon  them- 


100  •     THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

selves  for  theix  food.  Fortunately,  they  have  all  the  means  to 
be  desired  at  their  disposal.  They  have  only  to  put  forth  their 
hands  and  plant,  and  eat  and  live.  They  have  the  acres,  the 
genial  climate,  and  the  labor  necessary  to  the  production  of 
almost  every  kind  of  corn,  grain,  vegetable,  and  fruit  that  en- 
ters into  the  composition  of  human  food.  Let  the  people  be 
alive  to  the  great  fact,  and  avail  themselves  of  their  advantages. 
Let  them  plant,  plant,  plant.  Their  soil,  though  not  inexhaus- 
ble,  is  rich,  and  may  be  made  richer  by  care  and  industry. 
Plow  up  the  old  fields,  and  plow  deep,  the  deeper  the  better, 
and  plant  corn,  potatoes,  beans,  peas,  etK;.,  and  see  by  a  proper 
variation  of  the  kinds  of  seed,  a  succession  of  crops  is  pro- 
duced. Any  quantity  of  white  potatoes  can  be  grown  so  as  to 
mature  in  the  fall — a  circumstance  whose  impo'*tance  has  been 
overlooked  hitherto.  Late  corn  may  also  be  planted,  as  well 
as  sweet  potatoes,-  a  most  valuable  root.  But  listen  to  the  fol- 
lowing importunately  earnest  and  touching  cry,  though  tinged 
■with  the  prevailing  fanaticism,  to  "plant  corn,"  addresged  to 
Northern  farmers,  or  rather  their  wives  and  children,  by  an 
agricultural  journal,  and  then  let  all  of  our  planters  and  farm- 
ers profit  by  the  appeal. 

"Plant  Corn." — It  is  the  duty  of  those  who  take  arms  in 
their  hands  to  drive  back  the  foe,  to  provide  for  that  danger. 
It  is  the  duty  of  those  who  stay  at  home  to  provide  against  the 
•danger  of  short  crops.  In  short  to  provide  that  they  are  as 
abundant  as  industrious  labor,  judiciously  and  economically  di- 
rected, can  possibly  efiect.  To  do  this,  we  must  begin  now. 
Now  is  the  seed  time,  let  us  do  our  duty,  and  trust  God  for  the 
harvest.  Brother  farmers,  we  urge  you  to  plant  eorn.  Plow 
deep,  manure  well,  and  plant  corn. 

American  moth.ers,  wives,  and  daughters  of  American  sol- 
diers, we  urge  you  to  plant  corn. 

.  What  if  every  woman,  who  has  the  ability,  shall  plant  and 
tend  one  well-fertilized  hill  of  corn  ? 

Who  can  imagine  the  vast  addition  all  the  golden  ears 
grown  upon  these  extra  stalks  would  make  to  the  great  nation- 
al store  ? 

What  if  they  were  all  garnered  in  one  garner,  and  added  to 
the  widows  and  orphans  fund  ? 

Think  of  this,  mothers,  wives  and  daughters.  Think  what 
you  can  do  with  such  a  trifling  addition  to  your  other  labors. as 
planting  one  hill  of  corn. 

"Only  t^ree  grains  of  corn,  mother,"  let  every  child  cry,  in 
all  the  month  of  May,  and  plant  it,  and  then  follow  the  Scriptu- 
ral injunction,.  "Dig  about  it  and  dung  it,  until  it  grows  and 
bears  fruit." 

The  waste  bones  of  a  single  dinner,  burned  and  pulverized, 
will  more  than  fertilize  a  hill  of  corn.  The  sweepings,  the 
slops,  the  pieces  of  a  small  family,  mixed  in  a  tub,  and  carefully 


SEOOND  AMERICAN  RETOLrTION.  101 

applied  as  a  liquid  manure,  would  fertilize  a  hundred  hills  of 
corn  ;  aye,  more,  would  add  a  hundred  bushels  to  the  crop. 
Then  plant  "three  grains  of  corn."  Dig  the  soil  deep  and 
mellow.  Soak  the  seed  to  haaten  its  vegetation.  Keep  the 
ground  free  of  weeds,  and  the  euriace  loose,  and  moist,  and 
rich.  Dig  in  the  early  morning  dew.  There  is  no  better  ler- 
tilizer.  If  you  plant  the  right  kind,  three  grains  will  produce 
six  ears,  and  each  of  these  will  have  a  hundred  grains. 

Men,  women,  and  children — all  who  love  your  country—all 
who  have  a  superficial  foot  of  the  surface  of  the  country — we 
ask  you  to  plant  one  hill  of  corn.  Thus  you  can  save  your 
coimtry  in  its  hour  of  peril.  -You  can  with  your  feeble  hands 
alone,  provide  a  surplus  of  grain.  Seeing  your  spirit,  your 
strong  handed  relatives  will  be  animated  to  renewed  and  greater 
exertion,  and  each  .and  all,  chroHghout  all  the  corn-growing 
region  of  States,  unpolluted  with  slavery,  will  plant  one  more 
hill  o(  corn." 

To  carry  on  this  fanatical  and  brutal  war,  which  demagogues 
have  inaugurated  against  the  South,  the  wives  and  children  of 
Northern  and  Western  farmers  are  thus  adjured  togo  out  into 
the  fields  and  toil,  to  plant  "one  hill  of  corn."  This  shows  to 
what  terrible  straits  the  demagogues  feel  they  have  reduced 
their  section  of  the  country.  To  ward  off  a  famine,  actual 
starvation,  they  appeal  to  women  and  children  to  turn  thepi- 
selves  into  workmen,  and  dig  and  sweat,  that  the  politicians 
may  enjoy  office  and  cormorants  fatten  upon  the  common  mise- 
ries. For  this  there  will  come  a  reckoning  day ;  but  let  us  in- 
.lugurate  the  policy  of  entire  home  indei»endence  in  the  depart- 
ment of  breadstuff's  when  it  can  be  so  easily  done,  with  work 
comparatively  so  light,  and  harvests  so  sure,  so  abundant,  and 
EO  important. 

Vast  amounts  of  fertilizers  might  be  saved  upon  every  plan- 
tation by  the  requisite  pains  and  forethought,  and  turned  to 
the  enriching  of  the  soil,  aad  the  consequent  increase  of  crops. 
Millions  of  dollars  are  every  year  lost  to  the  South  in  this  way — 
from  sheer  neglect  and  improvidence.  We  trust  to  see  a  sjieedy 
reform  in  this  respect,  and  a  grea*^  increase  of  all  kinds  of  cere- 
■  als,  fruits,  and  vegetables,  as  th^  n.iMiral  result  of  it.  Less 
cotton  and  more  food  should  be  the  motto,  till  the  end  of  the 
w.ir,  whether  it  be  one  year  or  ten. 

Fruits  will  soon  be  ripe,  and  many  a  ]>atriotic  housewife  in 
the  South  may  make  all  her  jiin  money  by  putting  them  up  in 
tiermetrically  sealed  cans  for  the  New  Orleans  and  other  mar- 
kets.— Xttr  OrUari*:  Jiulktin.  May  1^01. 


TEE  APPXAL  OF  THE  ALABAMA  DELEGATION 

The  Confederate  ^cLaior?  :.^d  litj-reseutatives  from  Alaba- 
ma have  issued  a  very  patriotic  appeal  to  the  planters  of  that 


lf)'2  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

State,   urging  them  to  raise  everything  *in  their  power  in  the 
eatin"'  line.     The  Honorable  gentlemen  say : 

The  raising  the  present  year  of  the  largest  possible  quantity 
of  provisions,  and  the  raising  of  pork,  beef  and  mutton  for  the 
supply  of  the  army  and  the  support  of  the  people,  have  be- 
come manifestly  the  duty  of  every  citizen.  The  enemy  have 
possession  of  some  portion  of  our  country  well  adapted  to  rais- 
wcr  provisions.  In  other  portions  when  in  the  possession  of  the 
enemy,  they  have  damaged  farm?,  houses,  and  fences,  plundered 
and  appropriated  stock,  and  destroyed  farming  implements, 
iinder  a  hope  that  if  they  could  not  conquer  us  by  arms,  they 
coixld  subjugate  us  with  the  aid  of  starvation. 

It  behooves  us,  therefore,  so  to  provide  as  to  aatify  our  ene- 
mies that  they  are  not  to  have  the  aid  of  short  crops,  and  con- 
sequent want  and  suflering,  in  their  wicked  attempts  to  sub- 
jugate, rob  and  plunder  iis.  We  have  the  soil  and  the  labor,  if 
properly  used,  to  raise  provisions  and  supplies  in  abundance. 
We  urge  you  and  each  of  you,  in  the  present  state  of  affairs,  to 
devote  the  soil  and  the  labor  at  your  command  to  the  planting 
and  cultivation  of  provision  crops,  such  as  corn,  peas,  potatoes, 
and  vegetables  of  all  kinds  ;  and  that  you  raise  pork  and  beef, 
so  that  our  gallant  army  may  be  liberally  fed,  the  people  have 
abundance,  and  our  servants  be  saved  from  want  and  suffering, 
such  as  has  been  the  fate  of  those  who  have  fallen  into  the 
hands  of  the  enemy,  left  to  decay,  starvation  and  neglect. 

Every  cultivator  of  the  soil  is  deeply  interested  in  expelling 
from  our  lines  the  invaders  of  our  homes,  and  this  can  only  be 
done  by  raising  supplies  sufficient  for  the  liberal  support  of 
all.  Our  true  policy  is  to  cultivate  no  cotton  except  to  a  small 
extent  for  home  consumption,  and  devote  the  labor  of  the  coun- 
try to  the  raising  of  provisions. 

PLAHTING  AND   FARMING  HINTS. 

The  Agricultural  Editor  of  the  "Southern  Field  and  Fire- 
side, who  presides  over  a  valuable  department  of  a  most  valua 
ble  and  deserving  organ,  writes : 

"Good  seed  Corn  on  poof  land  will  make  a  better  yield  than 
snebbins  on  rich  soil.  Land  that  will  not  produce  more  than 
ten  bushels  to  the  acre  is  hardly  worth  planting.  Better  plant 
less  and  manure  well.     * 

"Of  Sweet  Potatoes,  the  Yam  is  the  best  for  the  table,  the 
Alabama  and  Spanish  for  stock  feeding — should  be  planted  early 
ill  March. 

"Of  Peas,  the  'Yellow  Speckled'  or  'Whippoorwill,'  is  very 
productive  but  yields  little  forage.  The  'Small  Yellow'  is  re- 
commended Avhere  the  vine  is  wanted.  The  Jerusalem  Arti- 
choke, Chufa  and  Ground  Pea,  should  be  planted  freely  for 
hogs.  The  Colza  {Branica  lacinati)  is  sWongly  commended 
as  an  oil  plant."  _   • 


SECOND  AMERK-AN  REVOLCTION.  103 

SPARE  THE  GARDENS. 

The  Richmond  "Dispatch"  says  :  "In  every  place  where  our 
armies  are  stationed  (Commanding  officers  should  exercise  the 
strictest  discipline  in  preventing  injury  to  private  property, 
cither  to  fencing,  fruits,  vegetables,  or  animals.  We  are  aware 
of  the  law-and-order-loving  character  of  our-  soldiers,  but  there 
are  others  who  are  not  to  be  restrained  from  depredations  ex- 
cept by  strict  discipline.  At  this  time,  when  every  foot  of 
ground  ought  to  be  cultivated,  and  when  a  full  supply  of  gar- 
den vegetables  may  relieve  in  some  measure  the  deficiency  of 
meat,  the  greatest  care  should  be  taken  by  the  military  and 
civil  authorities  to  encourage  the  cultivation  of  the  soil.  No 
gardens  at  all  will  be  made  in  the  neighborhood  of  large  armies 
unless  they  are  secured  from  depredation." 

We  regret  to  state  that  reckless  and  wanton  depredation.^ 
have  been  committe<i  against  farms  and  gardens  in  this  vicinity. 
These  disorders,  we  believe,  are  committed  by  very  few  soldiers 
or  persons  wearing  .the  badges  of  soldiers. 

The  general  reputation  of  most  of  our  brave  soldiers  is  an 
good  for  order  and  civil  deportment  as  for  gallantry  in  action. 
It  is  the  interest  of  all  good  and  orderly  soldiers  that  the  depre- 
dations and  misdeeds  of  those  who  bring  the  service  into  ill  re- 
put-e  and  who  threaten  to  interfere  with  the  supply  of  provi- 
sions frqm  our  larras,  should  be  detected  and  exemplary  punished. 

Where  officers  do  their  duty,  soldiers  are  never  dangerous  or 
destructive  to  their  friends. 

HOME  MEDICIKES-THE  POPPY  FOR  OPIUM 

It  will  be  most  profitable,  and  render  vast  service  to  the  coun- 
try. If  any  of  you  have  PoppyiSeed  to  spare,  send  them  to 
Dr.  Blaskie  ;  he  will  distribute  them.  . 

We  also  urge  upon  every  family  to  raise  large  quantitiffl  of 
pepper,  sage,  balm,  thyme,  »fec.,  &c.     It  is  all  wanted. 

"FAMIHE  IN  THE  SOUTH  " 

Under  this  suggestive  head,  a  number  of  tihc  papers  of  the 
North  are  endeaioring  to  show  to  tiieir  readers  that  the  "re- 
bellion" may  soon  bo  brought  to  a  close  by  the  ajtpearance  of 
starvation  in  the  Confederacy.  They  are.  impresM'd  with  the 
idea  that  the  people  and  the  army  arc  .already  siiffering  from 
want  of  food,  and  believe  that  if  they  can  Iwfore  many  weeks 
succeed  in  obtaining  posse'ssion  of  the  seaports  of  the  country, 
and  continue  to  hoM  the  country  at  prefont  under  their  control, 
tho  "rebels"  will  Ik*  compelb'd  to  submit  or  starve. 

The  other  day,  when  Yankee  priHonern  were  passing  through 
Knoxville,  their  officfr**  in  conversation  frankly  confe''se<l  that 
they  did  not  believe  that  the  South  could  be  conquered  >»y  tb* 
sword,  but  were  perfectly  confident  that  the  rebellion  would  b-; 
starved  Off  in  a  year  more. 


1 04  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

THE  CHEAPEST  FOOD. 

The  cheapest  and  most  nutritious  vegetable  used  for  food  is- 
heo7is.  Prof.  Liebig  says  that  pork  and  beans  form  a  com- 
pound of  subst.inces  peculiarly  adapted  to  furnish  all  that  is 
necessary  to  support  life.  A  quart  of  beans  and  half  a  pound 
of  pork  will  feed  a  small  fdmily  for  a  day  with  good  strength- 
ening food.  Four  quarts  of  beans  and  two  pounds  of  corned 
beef,  boiled  to  rags,  in  fitty  quarts  of  water,  will  furnish  a  good 
meal  for  forty  men. —  Charleston   Courier,  1863. 


SOMETHIITG  TO  BB  DONE. 

One  of  the  greatest  wants  of  the  medical  department,  says 
the  "South  Carolinian,"  is  opium  and  its  preparations.  The 
poppy,  its  source,  is  within  our  reach.  The  common  garden 
poppy  is  easily  cultivated,  and  all  we  want  is  for  the  ladies  to 
tr.ke  it  in  hand.  The  only  preparation  needed  is  to  slice  the 
capsules  and  collect  the  juice  on  plates  or  glass,  and  to  dry  it 
liud  forward  it  to  the  nearest  medical  purveyor.  He  will  pre- 
pare it  for  use.  Will  not  our  women  take  this  in  hand  in  their 
fiower  gardens  ?  It  is  specially  their  province  to  soothe  suffer- 
ing: and  solace  the  distressed.  Let  them  take  •  the  matter  up 
and  the  fall  season  will  show  an  immense  supply  ot  the  most 
valuable  medicine  that  the  armv  needs. 


A  MODEL  BOY. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Mobile  "Advertiser  and  Register?'' 
writes  from  Savannah  : 

This  allusion  to  the  "Republican"  reminds  me  of  the  wonder- 
inl  success  which  has  attended  the  efforts  of  one  of  the  boys- 
engaged  in  the  sale  of  that  paper  in  the  camps  around  the 
city.  Within  a  period  of  eighteen  months  he  accumulated 
money  enough  to  purchase  a  horse  and  dray,  but  finding  that 
be  was  too  small  to  load  and  unload  his  dray,  he  sold  it  and  the 
horse,  and  invested  the  money  in  five  milch  cows.  He  still 
continues  to  furnish  the  paper  to  the  soldiers,  and  with  the  pro- 
fits arising  from  the  sale  he  buys  feed  for  his  cows.  The  income 
arising  from  the  sale  of  papers  and  the  milk  given  by  bis  cows, 
is  now  ten  dollars  a  day,  or  at  the  rate  of  about  $3500  per  an- 
num. This  boy  will  make  his  way  in  the  world,  and  I  allude 
to  his  good  fortune  that  the  boys  engaged  in  the  sale  of  the 
"Advertiser  and  Register"  may  take  heart  and  emulate  his  ex- 
ample. You  may  tell  your  boys  that  this  Savannah  boy  does 
not  swear,  nor  use  tobacco,  nor  drink  liquor,  but  loves  his 
mother  and  is  very  industrious. 


One  of  Major-General  J.  E.  B.  Stuart's  servants  is  in  captivi- 
ty, glorifying  in  his  Southern  proclivities,  and  declaring  that  he 


SEOOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  105 

will  "die  fuss  'fore  he'll  take  the  oaf  of  allegiauce."  The  same 
darkey,  the  morning  after  the  passage  of  the  negro  regiment 
bill,  told  his  fellow  prisoners  that  the  white  men  of  the  North 
had  foimd  themselves  unable  to  whip  the  Southern  Confedera- 
cy, and  had  to  call  on  the  "niggers." 


GEN.  PILLOW  AHD  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Gen.  Pillow  recently  made  a  speech  to  Planters  in  Alabama, 
to  induce  them  to  permit  their  slaves  to  enter  Government  em- 
ploy as  teamsters,  etc.  To  show  that  he  was  not  asking  them 
:o  make  sacrifices  that  he  himself  wonld  not  make,  he  told  of 
his  Own  losses — 400  negroes,  four  gin  houses  worth  810,000 
each,  100,000  pounds  of  bacon,  2000  hogs,  500  head  of  cattle, 
his  houses  and  plantations  destroyed  and  desolated,  and  2100 
bales  of  his  cotton  burned  by  his  own  Government. 

He  stated  that  Gen.  Sherman  had  written  him  a  letter, 
couched  in  very  polite  language,  offering  to  return  his  negroes 
to  him,  and  to  indemnify  him  for  'hll  his  losses,  if  he  would 
abandon  the  Confederate  service.     His  answer  was  : 

General,  whilst  I  thank  you  for  your  courteous  letter,  let  me 
say  to  you,  the  property  your  Government  has  taken  from  me 
was  my  own.  Your  Government  has  the  power  to  rob  me  of 
it,  but  itis  too  poor  to  buy  me."  Concerning  President  Davis, 
he  said  :  "The  President  is  the  very  man  for  the  position  he 
holds;  if  he  cannot  conduct  us  through  this  revolution,  no 
man  could  ;  he  is  a  man  ot  delicate  form,  but  of  large  brain 
and  patriotic  heart,  and  eminently  <juaiified  in  every  respect  for 
the  Chief  Executive  of  the  Confederacy.'*  Although  he  thought 
the  President  had  not  done  him  justice,  yet  he  preferred  him 
for  President  to  any  other  man.  We  were  not  now  fighting  for 
President  Davis,  nor  for  any  other  man,  but  for  our  rights  as 
freemen  ;  and  as  for  himself  he  would,  if  he  had  it  to  do  over, 
vote  for  Jefferson.  Davis  for  President,  if  he  knew  that  he 
would  place  him  in  a  dungeon  during  the  whole  war. 

The  "Southern  Christian  Advocate"  says  such  remarks 
evince  a  noble  and  unselfish  jiatriotism,  that  sets  the  country 
above  self,  and  wo  take  ]ileasure  in  recording  them  and  re- 
commending them  to  the  notH-e  of  whatever  selfish  churl  may 
})C  looking  to  hi«  own  gain  honor?,  rather  than  to  hi?  country's 
weal. —  Charltf'toTi  Courier. 


STAKPEDE  OF  CONTRABAND  TROOPS 

A  corresjxndeLt  of  i];<-  Haitfoni  ^Connecticut)  "Times" 
writes  from  Hilton  Head,  Feb.  2  : 

The  negro  exfredition  from  St.  Mary>  has  just  returned.  It 
was  compofed  of  four  companies  of  ibe  negro  regi month. 
They  went  afler  nepro  recruite  and  Inmbtr.    Tkey  got  togetb- 


lOfi  THE    WOJIRN  of  the 

er  a  lot  of  negroes,  but  they  refused  to  come  away  and  were 
left  behind.  They  did  not  succeed  in  getting  any  lumber.  The 
transports  were  fired  at  from  the  shores.  Caj^tain  Jack  Clifton, 
of  the  steamer  John  Adams,  was  killed  by  a  ball  through  the 
head.  He  was  well  known  all  over  New  York.  He  was  the 
brother  of  the  celebr.ated  actress,  Josephine  Clifton,  and  was  very 
much  liked  for  his  social  and  cheerful  qualities.  His  wife  and 
daughter  are  at  Beaufort.  His  loss  is  regretted  by  all.  The- 
The  expedition  succeeded  in  bringing  off  four  non-combatants. 
The  town  of  St.  Mary's  was  burned  by  the  negroes. 

The  negroes  landed  and  encamped  at  St.  Mary's.  During  th§ 
night  twenty  rebels  on  horseback  made  a  dash  into  their  camp, 
when  the  negroes  fled  in  every  direction,  and  then  stampeded 
for  the  transj^orts,  throwing  away  their  guns.  They  rushed 
pell-mell  on  board,  and  created  the  greatest  confusion.  The 
rebels  fired  from  high  bluffs,  and  oUr  troops  could  not  ele- 
vate their  guns  enough  to  do  much  execution. 
to     . — — 


A  VALUABLE  SUGKJESTION  TO  PLAUTEES. 

A  corresponj-ient  of  the  "Savannah  News"  suggests  to  plan- 
ters that  they  prepare  to  plant  largely  of  slip  or  layer  of  sweet 
potatoes.     He  says : 

There  is  now  ample  time  for  the  preparation  as  they  may  be 
planted  as  late  as  the.  latter  part  of  July  and  produce  a  goo^ 
crop.  I  have  made  350  bushels  per  acre  on  very  light  land,  by 
the  application  of  about  two  bushels  of  rough  stable  manure  to 
the  task  row,  and  much  larger  yields  have  been  made  to  my 
knowledge ;  but  if  only  50  bushels  were  made  it  will  be  a  good 
return  for  the  labor  required. 

As  an  article  of  food  I  need  not  say  much,  as  their  properties 
are  well  known ;  but  as  I  am  convinced  that  they  have  never 
been  properly  appreciated  as  food  for  horses,  I  "wish  to  make 
known  the  fact  that  they  are  equal  to  corn  or  oats  in  quality,  and 
I  think  5  pecks  of  potatoes  equal  to  4  of  corn  for  horses ;  at 
least  my  experience  for  several  years  justifies  my  conclusion. 
TThey  should  not  be  fed  to  horses  until  they  have  been  banked 
about  three  weeks,  as  they  arc  apt  to  give  the  scours  ;  but  after 
that  there  is  no  danger.  Simply  let  them  be  dry  and  not 
wasted,  and  no  danger  need  be  apprehended.  As  the 
'cost  of  transportation  would  be  greater  than  corn,  I 
would  suggest  that  farmers  use  them  at  home  and  ship  their 
corn  to  points  where  it  may  be  needed. 

PATRIOTISM    OF    NEQROES-THE    OLD    DRUMMER    OF 
CHALMETTE. 

The  old  aegro  drummer,  Jordan,  cf  historic  fame  as  a  drum- 
mer at  the  battle  of  New  Orleans,  in  conformity  with  the  order 


SEC0ND  AMERICAN  RKVOLCTrOX.  107 

oj;'  Beaat  Butler,  handed  in  a  complete  list  of  his  property  for 
Gonfiscation  by  the  Lincoln  irovernnicnt,  and  declared  himself 
"  an  enemy  of  tlic  United  States."  The  Louisiana  "  Democrat " 
says : 

Ten  thousand  of  those  citizens  of  Xew  Orleans  preteudiagj 
to  be  loyal,  who  have  sworn  allegiance  to  the  United  States,  foY 
the  purpose  of  saving  their  property,  must  have  blushed  from 
shame  when  they  saw  this  old  negro  voluntarily  stripping  him- 
self of  his  hard-earned  gains,  and  becoming  j^enniless  in  the 
evening  of  his  days,  rather  than  yield  obedience  to  a  Govern- 
ment which  has  become  an  object  of  the  contempt  of  the 
civilized  world. — N'ovember^  1^02. 


NEGRO  PATRIOTISM. 

Benjaniin  Marrablo,  E.^q.,  of  Halifax  county,  Virginia,  has 
four  negro  men  who,  for  some  time,  have  been  engaged  working 
on  the  fortifications  at  Richmond.  A  few  days  ago  they  came 
up  home  on  a  visit,  and  finding  go^td  warm. clothing,  excellent 
shoes  and  socks  made  for  them,  they  generously  decUned  them, 
on  condition  that  their  master  would  send  them  to  the  suffering 
soldiers  who,  they  said,  needed  them  much  more  than  they  did. 
They  had  seen  suffering  soldiers,  and  it  touched  their  hearts  to 
compassion,  besides  they  want  the  South  to  conquer.  Now, 
how  many  miserable  money  grabbers  and  Shylocks,  with  white 
skin,  but  with  hearts  blacker  than  the  hides  of  these  contra- 
bands, would  have  been  as  self-sacrificing,  generous  and  mag- 
nanimous? Not  one  I  The  articles  thus  contributed  by  these 
colored  men  would  buy  several  barrels  of  com,  at  the  extor- 
tioner's price.     Let  many  "  white  "  men  think  of  this. 


A  LOYAL  NEGRO. 

A  correspondent  inform*,  us  that  a  fommitt'/e  wa«  recently 
ap])ointed  in  Portsmouth  to  urge  Robert  Butt,  a  negfo  of  that 
place,  of  worthy  repute,  and  who  rendere<l  himself  famous  for 
his  kindness  durinjj  the  prevalenft-  of  the  yellow  fever,  to  be- 
come a  candidate  for  Conffre.ss  to  rejtresent  that  District. .  The 
negro,  more  lo>al  than  Sej^ar  or  (owpcr,  jiromptly  sent  the 
following  response,  which  our  correspondent  assures  us  was 
copied  from  the  original. — liichwrmd  Euqvirer. 

PoKTSMorTir,  December  22,  1862. 
To  John    Council,  John   O.    Lawrence,    Nicholiw  Butler   and 

others,  Committee  r 

Gcni!> — Acropt  m-    •  '- for  your  6at ter- 

ing  invitatiou  to  bf^       ■  -'-nt  the  Dij«trict 

in  the  37th  Con?re*«  of  xhv  Uoit*^  StJite». 


108  fHE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

There  was  a  day  in  the  history  of  our  once  glorious  country, 
when  such  an  invitation  would  have  been  received  with  some 
consideration,  but  now  things  are  very  different,  and  to  accept 
such  a  position  when  I  know,  if  elected,  I  cannot  represent  the 
voice  of  the  people  of  this  District.  In  my  humble  opinion, 
gentlemen,  any  individual  who  would  sufier  his  name  to  be  used 
in  this  connection,  and  under  the  existing  circumstances,  \^  ould 
disgrace  himself,  and  show  but  little  respect  for  his  friends  of 
the  District  who  are  beyond  the  lines  of  the  United  States 
Government,  fighting  for  our  very  existence.  I  must  decline 
your  invitation  to  become  a  candidate  (to  be  voted  for  by  ballot) 
for  a  seat  in  a  Congress  which  knows  no  law,  except  the  higher 
law,  and  are  every  day  enacting  unconstitutional  measures, 
thereby  disgracing  the  capital  of  the  country.  No,  gentlemen  ; 
I  will  leave  this  position  to  some  one  who  is  more  anxious  to  act 
the  traitor,  and  have  his  name  written  high  upon  the  page  of 
infamy,  than  one  who  has  ever  borne  within  his  bosom  the  true 
motto  of  his  mother  State — "  Down  with  the  tyrant." 
I  am,  gentlemen,  very  respectfully, 

your  obedient,  humble  servant, 

ROBERT  BUTT. 


From  the  New  York  World. 
THE  MURDER  OF  THE  BLACK  RACE. 

The  "Evening  Post"  frankly  admits  that  the  ultimate  object 
of  the  radicals  is  the  destruction  of  the  colored  race  on  this 
continent.     It  says : 

"As  the  Indians  were  crowded  westward,  and  out  of  our 
bounds,  by  the  irresistible  advance  of  the  white  man,  so  will  the 
blacks  be  whenever  that  powerful  protective  system  with  which 
the  slaveholders  have  guarded  them  is  removed.  It  is  the 
destiny  of  the  free  white  working  men  of  this  country  to  pos- 
sess it ;  the  efforts  of  the  slaveholders  have  hitherto  robbed 
them  of  one-half  of  it — the  richest,  fairest  half^— and  devoted  it 
to  the  blacks.  It  is  the  slaveholders  who  have  preserved  the 
negro  /rom  decline  among  us  ;  it  is  the  slaveholders  who  have 
increased  the  blacks  from  seven  hundred  thousand  in  1790  to 
four  millions  in  1860." 

.So  it  is  admitted  that  those  terrible  fellows,  the  slaveholders, 
whose  chains,  whips  and  blood-Rounds  we  have  heard  so  much 
about  in  anti^slavery  novels  and  poems,  are  after  all  the  real 
conservators  of  the  negro  race,  while  the  Abolitionists,  with  all 
their  professions  of  philanthropy,  contemplate  their  destruction. 
The  "  Post "  is  right.  The  freeing  of  negroes  means  their  ex- 
tinction as  a  race  in  North  America ;  the  history  of  the  present 
war  proves  that,  beyond  all  peradventure.  From  Arkansas 
around  to  Port  Royal  the  same  complaint  reaches  us,  that  the 
negroes  within  our  army  lines  are  in  rags  and  starving,  and  tliat 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  109 

the  soldiers  abuse  and  hate  them.  A  card  in  yesterday's  "  Tri- 
bune," from  the  agents  of  some  negro  missionary  society  be<''. 
ging  for  money  and  clothes,  says :  '  * '      a 

"  There  are  about  a  thousand  in  Hampton,  quartered  in  tents 
and  a  still  larger  number  at  Norfolk— seven  hundred  and  ei<^hty 
at  Norfolk,  and  three  hundred  and  seventy  quartered  in  a  large 
storehouse  and  in  barracks.  Could  the  benevolent  look  upon 
these  pitiable  objects  of  charity,  tattered  and  shoeless,  destitute 
of  decent  clothing,  and  compelled  to  sleep  on  hard  boards 
bricks  or  ground,  without  a  i)allet,  or  hardly  a  rag  under  them' 
their  hearts  would  bleed,  and  '  eyes  unused  to  weep  o'erflow 
with  tears.' 

"  It  is  not  improbable  that  there  arc  sixty  thousand  freed 
negro  families  within  our  lines  in  this  condition,  and,  under  the 
operation  ot  the  emancipation  proclamation,  as  our  army  ad- 
vances, this  number  will  double  and  treble.  These  poor  people 
are  destined  for  misery  and  ultimate  destruction.  The  North- 
even  Massachusetts— will  not  allow  them  a  residence,  and  for 
the  present,  perhaps  for  years,  there  can  be  no  fixed  system  of 
labor  where  they  are  located." 

What  a  strange  verdict  will  history  pass  upon  the  Abolition 
party.  It  was  originally  organized  to'  champion  the  woes  of  the 
black  race;  it  made  the  world  ring  with  the  aUejjed  cruelties  of 
the  slaveholders ;  yet  this  same  party,  in  less  than  two  years 
after  it  assumed  power,  inflicted  more  real  distress  upon  the 
black  race  than  have  several  generations  of  slaveholders.  More 
than  that,  one  of  its  principal  organs  now  admits  that' the  ne- 
groes thrive  under  the  sway  of  slaveholders,  but  are  destined 
to  perish  from  out  the  land  at  the  expense  of  their  quondam 
friends,  the  Abolitionists. 


NO    LOVE   FOR   SAMBO-NEOROES    EXPELLED  FROM 
INDIANA. 

The  City  Council  of  Vincennes,  Indiana,  adapted  on  the  6th 
instant  the  following  preamble  and  resolution  : 

Wheukas,  a  number  of  negroes  were  brought  into  the  coun- 
try on  the  1st  inst  on  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  Kailroad,  from 
the  yicimly  of  Noble,  Indiana,  from  which  point  thev  wore  for- 
warded, as  we  learn  by  a  man  named  Hughes,  who  had  procured 
them  at  Cairo  to  work  on  his  farm;  an<l  whereas,  the  presence 
of  said  negroes  among  us  is  contrary  to  the  laws  and  constitu- 
tion of  the  State  of  Indiana  ;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  the  M.ayor,  with  the  a<inisiance  of  the  CitT 
Marshal  and  such  other  forr.-s  a-^  may  l.f  n<  r w^^arv,  be  reouired 
to  take  immediate  steps  toward  havii  ;rroc«  nent  back 

from  whence  they  camo,  conM-nol  to  i.,     ^  ., , .  f^y  panj^,  ^^ 
forwarded  them  to  thid  upon  con«ulution  with   th° 

City  Attorney,  it  is  deter:  .i  puch  action  can  be  loff.illv 


110  THE  WOMJiN  OF  THE 

taken ;  and  ihaij  in  the  meantime,  all  parties  employftig  the 
negroes  aforesaid,  or  any  other  negroes,  in  eur  city  or  county, 
contrary  to  the  constitution  and  laws  of  the  State,  be  proceeded 
against  at  once. 

The  condition  of  these  negroes. is  said  to  be  deplorable.  They 
are  crowded  together  in  a  ruinous  building  in  the  outskirts  of 
the  town.     One  of  them  has  uied,  and  others  are  sick. 

(Jo7xfedercu?y,  November^  1862. 


THE  NEGROES  TO  BE  FORCED  TO  FIGHT- 

The  Washington  "Chronicle"  lays  down  the  law  for  the  ne- 
groes thfls  :  Fighting  promiscuous  is  forbid,  and  they  must  go 
in  the  forefront  of  the  battle.  The  Yanke€s  evidently  intend  to 
destroy  the  entire  breed  in  America. 

General  Hunter  believes  the  employment  of  blacks  as  soldiers 
to  be  necessary  to  the  preservation  of  our  country.  The  result 
of  the  war  must  be  to  secure  to  them  the  inestimable  blessing 
which,  but  for  the  rebellion,  could  never  have  been  attained  by 
the  present,  or,  perhaps,  the  next  generation.  This  being  the 
case,  it  is  no  more  than  fair  that  negroes  should  aid  us  in  crush- 
.  ing  that  rebellion  which  is  as  hostile  to  their  interests  as  it  is  to 
ours  ;  and  if  there  are  among  them  any  who  are  too  selfish  or 
two  cowardly  to  make  sacrifices  'xad.  incur  risks  for  the  sake  of 
the  great  privilege  of  their  manhood,  they  should  be  compelled 
to  do  their  duty. 


CUE  YAKEEE  AND  THREE  NEGROES  BURIED  IN  ONE 

HOLE. 

On  White  River  there  is  a  grave  in  which  are  buried  a  white 
man,  a  negro  woman  and  two  negro  men.  In  one  of  the  battles 
last  year,  among  the  killed  were  the  chaplain  ot  the  1st  Wis- 
consin regiment,  who  had  shortly  before  married  a  negro  wench, 
the  property  of  a  Mr.  Thomas,  and  the  negroes  also.  When 
our  troops  came  to  bury  the  dead,  they  put  the  parson  and  his 
wife  in  the  hole,  and,  to  give  him  enough  of  nigger  company, 
threw  in  the  bodies  of  two  negro  men,  who  had  been  killed  in 
the  action, — TAttle  Pk.ock  Democrat. 


THE  NEQRO  BEGINS  TO   "HURT"    IN   MASSACHUSETTS. 

The  backs  of  the  Yankees  are  becoming  sore  under  the  negro 
saddle  which  they  voluntarily  begirted  themselves  with,  and 
they  have  already  commenced  wincing  under  the  self-assumed 
burden  even  in  negro-worshiping  Massachusetts.  The  Boston 
"Courier,"  of  March  16th,  lets  loose  a  winning  half-suppressed 
complaint,  which  we  copy: 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  Ill 

Th:^  Difference:. — About  a  week  ago  several  pereons,  and 
among  them  one  or  more  officers,  having  been  condemned  by  a 
court  7imrtial  held  at  the  Navy  Yard,  were  quietly  taken  to  the 
State  prison  at  Charlestown,  shaved,  clad  in  prison  costume  and 
put  to  hard  labor.  We  announce  this  fact  thus  nakedly  without 
approval  or  condemnation,  for  the  consideration  of  the  people 
of  tlie  Commonwealth.  In  times  past,  when  under  the  laws  of 
the  United  States  fugitive  slaves,  were  arrested  in  Massachu- 
setts, the  use  of  the  State  prisons  and  the  help  of  the  State 
officers  were  denied  to  the  General  Government  by  statute. 
What  has  so  changed  matters,  that  while  the  Government  may 
not  be  aide<i  as  to  one  class  of  persons  it  may  be  as  to  another? 
Is  it  not  clear  that  both  ca^es  canuot  be  right  ?  If  so,  which  is 
wrofu  ? — March,  1S63. 


A  FULL  YANKEE  LIEUTENANT  A  NEGRO. 

Yesterday  a  lot  of  some  ten  or  twelve  prisoners — mostly 
bushwhackers — captured  near  the  Big  Creek  Gap  by  Colonel 
Palmer's  command,  were  brought  to  this  city.  Among  them 
was  a  negro,  named  John  PJdmonds,  who  claimed  to  be  a  regu- 
larly commissioned  Federal  IJeutenant.  He  states  that  he 
started  out  as  cook  in  the  33d  Indiana  regiment,  but  on  their 
i^treat,  from  Cumberland  Gap,  was  left  in  the  mountains.  He 
subsequently  joined  Capt.  Goodwin's  company  of  bx^^hwhackers, 
in  which  he  was  commissioned  a  l^ieutenant,  sleeping  and  mess- 
ing with  the  white  officers.  He  boasts  of  having  killed  three 
"secesh"  with  his  own  hand.  The  guard  who  escorted  him  to 
jail  could  scarce  refrain  from  lynching  him  at  this  avowal,  and 
only  the  doubt  as  to  whether  he  -wafC  rom}>os  infjitis  saved  his 
black  bide.  He  professes  to  own  8:9,000  worth  of  property  in 
Indiana,  and  says  he  could  have  liad  a  white  wife  there  if  he 
had  wanted  one;  and  that  his  commission  as  ;i  Lieutenant  is  at 
Captain  Goodwin's  house. 

In  addition  to  the  above,  some  thirty  to  forty  other  prisoners 
were  brought  >>efore  Provost  Marshal  Toole,  consisting  of  de- 
serters, rcnf  crades,  bushwhackers,  &c. — Knoji'iUc  Ti> {lisfcr,  1f/>. 


THE  NEGRO  IN  THIS  WAR. 

"P.  W.  A.,"  writing  to  the  Mobile  "Advertise;."  from  Sa- 
vannah, nays : 

The  negro  is  performing  an  import aiit  part  in  the  ercat  work 
of  our  redemption.  At  one  ol  the  foundries  to-day,  I  saw  a 
nnraber  of  blacks  engaged  upon  the  raonpter  shells  and  parrot 
balls.  At  another  place  H/'veral  were  at  work  upon  a  Bpeciea  of 
machinery  which  most  l>e  namclesp.  Bey  end  the  city,  botli  on 
water  ar.«l  land,  they  havf/   rcnd*^?"^^  ' n  ucr- ^t  •  xr.-^*  9;  in  the 


112  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

construction  of  the  fortifications  which  environ  the  town.  This 
is  all  right.  No  one  has  a  deeper  interest  in  the  success  of  the 
Confederate  arms  than  the  negro.  Every  blow  he  strikes — 
every  bolt  he  forges — is  a  blow  and  a  bolt  in  his  own  behalf. 
The  success  of  the  North  would  be  the  ruin  of  the  black  man. 
It  would  reduce  hitn  to  rags,  to  starvation,  to  death.  The  suc- 
cess of  the  South,  on  the  contrary,  would  perpetuate  the  happy 
condition  he  now  occupies  in  our  beneficent  social  system — a 
state  of  comfort  and  civilization  to  which  the  sons  of  Ham  have 
attained  in  no  other  part  of  the  world.  Well  may  the  negro^ 
assist,  therefore,  in  the  erection  of  batteries  and  the  forging  of 
the  thunderbolts  of  war.     It  .is  for  himself  that  he  works. 


CRIME  AND  ITS  PUNISHMENT. 

A  Northern  paper  publishes  the  following  item  : 
A  letter  from  a  correspondent  at  Denton  in  Maryland,  gives 
the  details  of  a  terrible  tragedy  enacted  at  that  place  on  Satur- 
day last.  A  mulatto  man  named  Jim  Wilson  had  outraged  and 
murdered  a  little  daughter  of  Edgar  Plutnraer,  about  1 1  years 
of  age,  residing  near  Brighton,  in  Carolina  coimty,  meeting  her 
in  the  woods  on  her  way  from  school.  The  perpetrator  of  this 
terrible  outrage  was  arrested,  confessed  the  deed,  and  was  com- 
mitted to  the  Denton  jail.  The  people  of  the  surrounding  * 
country  flocko^  to  the  town  and  broke  open  the  jail,  took  out 
the  prisoner,  hung  him  to  a  tree,  fired  sixteen  bullets  into  the 
body,  dragged  it  through  the  streets  attached  to  the  rope,  put 
it  lip,  burned  it,  and  concluded  the  ceremony  by  giving  three 
cheers  for  Stonewall  Jackson. — November^  1862. 


THE  KEY  TO  THE  PROSPERITY  OF  THE  CONFEDERACY. 

"  Kin  you  tell  me,  Sambo,  de  key  to  de  prosperity  of  de 
Souf?" 

"Key  to  prosperity  of  de  Souf?  Big  words,  Juno;  guess 
you  must  hab  been  eating  massa's  dickshunary.  Golly,  I  ain't 
learned  nuflf  to  answer  dat." 

"  Well,  chile  'tis  de  darkey." — Field  and  Fireside. 


THE  NEGRO  AND  THE  YANKEE-THE  YANKEE  HANGS 
THE  NEGRO- AND  HIS  OPINION  OF  HIM. 

In  a  series  of  letters  from  correspondents  of  New  York  and 
Philadelphia  journals  attached  to  the  Federal  army  in  the  Penin- 
sula, They  were  dated  in  New  Kent  county.  One  of  them, 
dated  at  New  Kent  C.  11.,  May  13th,  has  the  following  para- 
graph, which  we  think  worthy  of  special  attention : 

"  A  negro,  a  very  desperate  character,  was  hung  at  West 


PFCOND  ATVIF.RTCAN  RKVOT.UTTON.  ll^^ 

I'oint,  on  tlio  vivcr,  hist  Fridiiy,  for  tlu-  ookl-hlooded  innvdtn-  of 
two  MassaclmsettH  soldiers.  Ilo  had  caught  them  asleo]i  alone, 
and  innrdored  them  for  their  money.  lie  wa8  cau!i;ht  the  next 
day,  and  Avas  made  to  jump  ofl"  the  Tunb  of  a  tree  with  a  rope 
around  his  neck.  This  murder,  and  other  instances  of  atrocity, 
cruelty,  deceit  and  ingratitude,  on  the  jiart  of  negroes  in  camp, 
liave  comjiletely  cure<l  the  Massachusetts  soldiers  of  that  negro 
wor8hip]>ing  mania  of  which  they  have  hitherto  lieen  possessed. 
They  have  repeatedly  declared,  in  my  hearing,  that  they  wisheil 
that  the  Avar  could  br  conducted  in  such  a  manner  as  would 
leave  the  status  of  slavery  just  as  it  AVas  before  the  war  ;  ibr  the 
slaves  have  proved  theniselves  utterly  unworthy  of  freedom, 
and  utterly  unfit  to  be  free.  And  such,  too,  have  been  my  ex- 
perience in  regard  to  them. — 18(V2. 


DERIVATION    AND   MEANING  OF   THE  WORD  YANKEE. 

The  Richmond  "  Whig"  li.as  discovered  in  a  record  oi  tr.avel 
kept  by  one  Thomas  Anbiri<  y,  and  published  in  London  in  I  /'.•], 
the  fulIoAving  in  reference  to  the  derivation  and  meaning  of  the 
word  Yankee.  ITaving  relerred  to  tlie  New  Knglanders  as 
Yankees,  he  says : 

':'■  Apropos — It  may  not  be  amiss  just  here  to  observe  to  you 
the  etymology  of  this  term.  It  is  derivetl  Irom  a  Cheroki*!- 
word,  enakke^  which  signifies  coward  and  .slave.  Thi.s  ejtithet 
of  Yankee  was  best oAve<l  upon  tlx;  inhabitants  of  New  England 
by  the  Virginians,  for  not  assisting  them  in  a  war  witlt  the 
<  "herokees,  and  they  have  ahvays  been  held  in  derision  by  it.  ' 


NEW  SLAVE  TRADE. 

A  gentl'  iii;iii   oiieet   from   AU-xandria,    \  irgim;i,    .viieie   ih, 
Yankees  liave  po.ssession,   informs  u.s  that  two  vessels  left  thai 
jiortone  day  last  week  loa<b'd   with  slaves  stolen  from  the  loyal 
citizens  of  Virgini.i,  and  doubtless  bound  ft»r  St.  Croix,  or  somi- 
otlier  West  India  iHland.     A   vessel  recently  sailed   from  the 
N'ork  river,  wliere  kIic  arrived  a  few  days  previous  \\\\h  \\'e^l 
India  fruit,  and  by  the   cunning   and  dujjlii'ity  ol"  the 
skipper  and  his  crew,  many  slaves  in  the  neighborhood 
duced  to  go   ftu   bo.ird.     As   s<»on   .is  a   load   of  tl 
creatures  wa."   <d»taine«j,  ilinr-^rl    Irit'tcd   nff,   an" 
sail,  despite  llie  t«ars  an' I  -es,  w  ho  too  j;u 

discovered  the  lra[«  in  v^  .  f.  i,.  tlinn   .  ;'. 

as  prizes  no  doubi    to  If 

anybody  belicvcM  that  ?■  ..ilo 

bondage,  he  ha«  morn  faith  \n  i  is  than 

their  past  hi«tMv  and  re^-'-t.i  ■,••., 


114  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE 

A  JOYFUL  RETURN. 

Joe,  a  servant  of  a  gentleman  of  this  city,  who  has  been  an 
absentee  from  his  master's  premises  about  eighteen  months,  and 
•luring  that  time  employed  by  the  Abolitionists  on  St.  Helena 
and  the  adjacent  ishands,  returned  on  Fi'iday  nu'>rning  to  his 
master.  lie  reports  the  negroes  on  tlie  island  in  a  destitute 
condition,  and  many  anxious  to  return  had  they  the  facilities  for 
doing  so.  He  is  very  much  emaciated,  but  will  soon  recover 
under  home  intlnences. —  (Jharleston  (Joiirier. 


THE  RETURN  OF  A  SLAVE. 

A  negro,  named  Jesse,  the  property  of  K.  1>.  Kimball,  of  this 
city,  who,  it  will  be  remembered,  made  his  (;scape  from  this 
port  in  July  or  August  last,  in  com]iauy  with  four  others — one 
<jf  them  named  Abram,  and  belonging  to  Dr.  S.  Woft' — returned 
this  morning,  perfectly  disgusted  with  the  Abolitionists.  II<' 
states  that  when  he  and  his  companions  left  jMobile,  they  got  on 
board  the  Federal  steamer  Pocahontas,  then  lying  in  tlie  fleet 
in  front  of  our  harbor.  Since  then  lie  has  been  in  JJaltimore, 
Washington  and  otiier  Yankee  cities,  and  says  that  he  has  found 
out  all  he  wants  to  know  about  the  Yankees.  He  says  that  lie 
never  was  so  badly  treated  in  liis  life  as  he  was  on  board  that 
steamer.  One  half  the  time  he  had  not  enough  to  eat,  and  was 
only  half-clothed,  and  the  way  they  punished  was  awful— that 
they  would  ]>ut  him  in  doaI>le  irons  and  steam  him,  and  so  it 
was  with  both  while  and  black.  The  negroes  in  the  Northern 
cities  were  a  most  miserable  and  sorry  set  of  fellows.  One  of 
tliose  that  went  away  with  him  was  killed  on  the  Mississippi 
River  in  one  of  the  engagements  there,  and  the  others  have 
been  trying  to  escape  ibr  a  long  time,  and  he  knows  that  they 
would  give  anything  in  the  Avorld  if  they  could  get  home. 

Tlie  way  he  got  away  is  thus  told  :  Last  week  the  Pocahontas 
returned  to  Pensacola,  after  her  cruise  North,  and  the  day  after 
lier  arrival  at  the  Navy  Yard,  three  of  the  oilicers  started  out 
hunting  and  took  him  along  to  carry  the  game.  NV^hen  out,  he 
watched  his  opportunity  and  skeedaddled  ;  making  his  way 
through  the  woods  until  lie  got  to  the  l*erdido  K'iver.  There 
he  found  a  skift'  and  came  ovei"  home. 

Jesse  gives  a  deplorable  account  of  the  Abolitionists,  and  says 
that  all  "dera  dat  wants  to  go  dar  may  do  it,  but  he  neiier  is 
gwine  to  leave  his  niaster  and  home  again."  He  declares  that 
he  is  perfectly  v^illing  to  "live  and  die  in  Dixie  Land."- 

Mobile  Tribune,  Feh-iiary  5,  1S63, 


NEVER  GIVE  UP. 

Never  give  up !  it  is  wiser  and  better 

Always  to  hope  than  once  to  despair ; 
Fling  olf  the  losul  of  doubt's  cankeri%  fetter. 


SECOND  AilEIilCAN  REVOLUTION.  115 

And  break,  the  dark  spell  of  tynmnical  care, 
Kever  give  up  or  the  burden  mav  sink  you— 

Providfencc  ba:3  kiudlj-  mingled  the  cup; 
And  in  all  trials  or  tronbles,  bethink  you, 

The  -watchword  of  life  must  be,  never  imvo  up. 

Never  give  up!  there  are  chances  and  changes 

Helping  the  hopeful  a  hundred  to  one. 
And,  through  the  dark  <±aos,  Hi^h  TV'i.sdom  arranges. 

Ever  Buccc;;3 — if  you'll  only  hope  on  ; 
Kevcr  give  up  I  for  the  wisest  iw  b  ildejl. 

Knowing  that  Providence  mingles  the  cup. 
And  of  all  maxima  the  best  as  the  oldert, 

I;,  the  true  watchword,  never  give  up. 

Tsevcr  give  up  I  thou;;h  th(-  grape,  rliot  raay  rattlr, 

Ur  the  fidl  thunder  cloud  over  you  burst, 
Stand  like,  n  rock,  and  the  storm  of  the  Itatlle, 

Little  shall  harm  you,  although  doiug  tlicii  worst, 
Never  give  up  1  if  adversity  prcsser;, 

I'rovidciice  wincly  has  mingled  tbe  cup, 
And  the  best  (;oun3el  in  all  your  diFlrcr.oep, 

I'jtiic  stout  hearted  watchword  of  never  give  up  ' 


DR.  NORTHS  TREATMENT  IN  A  YANKEE  TRISON  -  A 
FAITHFUL  NEGRO-CAMP  NEAR  FREDERICKSBURG. 
FEBRUARY  8,  1863, 

Dr.  Nortli,  of  (Tfoigia,  has  just  joined  Aiulcrsoii's  (icorgi.i 
lirig.'ido,  as  Assist.-mt  Siirf^con.  Tliis  j^ent Ionian  has  just  re- 
turned iVoui  a  coinimlHory  visit  t<»  "Wasliinglnn,  ho  liaving  been 
(  apluvcd  at  W.irrcnton,  Virginia.  lie  \vas  carried  to  the  Capital 
prison,  together  with  a  negro  hoy  belonging  to  him.  Ou  their 
arrival  ih  the  jireseiice  of  tiic  brute  Wood,  keeper  of  tbe  j)risou, 
the  negro  was  informed  by  the  scoundrel  that  he  wa.s  free,  aiitl 
could  do  whatever  lie  wished.     He  was  his  own  man. 

Tlic  negro  ])OKitively  refu.oed  to  (piithis  master  . and  lontinue*! 
his  relusal  until  cvasi>eratcd,  the  Itnite  oiilered  Dr.  North  to 
make  his  negro  ipiit  him.  (Jn  Dr.  North's  i\iusal,  ho,  and  bis 
lioy  were  placod  in  a  dark  dungeon  and  kept  there  for  near 
twenty-lour  hourn.  Wo«k1  e.vpresse«l  with  many  oaths  hi»  de- 
termination to  keep  them  tlien-  f«>r  a  month,  but  desisted  when 
(lur  ca]»tive  oflieers  threatened  that  wln-n  tiny  arrived  in  Ilieh 
n\ontl  they  would  lay  thi«  mntter  beli.re  I're.-ident  Davis,  and 
have  the /''• '■''^'•^"W  apiiiicnl.  The  boy  «bing  to  hin  master's 
skirls  and  <  ime  back  to  Dixie  well  satisfied  witb  having  e.sea|»e<l 
the  ebUchci*  ol  il"  \l...iii;..i.i^t^.  I  mention  this  incident  as  it 
is  not  \vithoul 


116  THK  WOMEN  OF  THE 

YAHKEE  HYPOCRISY   AND  BARBAEITY  ILLUSTRATED. 

A  c()no8}tun(lent  writing  from  FaycUe  C'OiirL  House,  Alabama, 
iimler  date  of  January  27,  sends  the  following  account  of  the 
barbarous  treatment  of  two  negro  boys,  belonging  to  Mr.  Nanee, 
of  Pickens  County,  Alabama.  The  facts  are  vouched  for  by 
Dr.  Sheltou,  of  Fayette  Court  House  : 

"A  company  of  volunteers  having  left  Pickens  County  for 
the  field  of  action,  Mr.  Nance  sent  two  negro  boys  along  to  aid 
the  comj)any.  Their  imaginations  became  dazzled  Avith  the 
visions  of  Elysiau  fields  in  Yankeedom,  and  they  went  to  find 
them.  But  Paradise  was  nowhere  there,  and  they  again  sighed 
ibr  home.  The  Yanks,  however,  detained  them,  and  cut  off 
their  ears  close  to  their  heads.  These  negroes  fiually  made  their 
esca])e,  and  are  now  at  home,  with  Mr.  Nance,  in  Pickens.  They 
arc  violent  haters  of  Yankees,  and  their  adventures  and  expe- 
rience are  a  terror  to  negroes  of  that  region,  who  learn  a  lesson 
from  their  1)rethren  Avhose  ears  are  left  in  Lincolndom..' 


COHiEDEEATE  MONEY-ITS  FUNDABILITY  AND  CUR- 
RENT VALUE  AFTER  THE  FIRST  LIMITED  TIME  FOR 
FUNDI SG  MADE  INTELLIGIBLE  TO  ALL. 

No  more  grievous  injury  can  possibly  be  inflicted  uj)on  this 
country  than  the  systematic  attemi>ts  made  in  some  <iuarters  to 
discredit  the  issues  of  Treasury  Notes,  or  any  part  of  them. 
The  motives  are  various,  but  the  great  end  sought  to  be  attained 
is  always  speculation — s)»ecidation  upon  the  ignorant  fears  of 
the  people.  Finance  is  a  subject  not  easily  mastered,  and  thus 
there  is  room  and  opportunity  for  scattering  about  fears  and 
^suspicions.  The  methods  <jf  procedure  adapted  t<>  depreciate 
our  cu.rrency  are  various  also,  but  the  most  ef^cacious  of  them 
is  tlie  ill-boding  hint  and  whisper  of  "repudiation."  It  is  even 
insisted  that  the  })rinciple  of  rejjudiation  is  already  ado^tted  by 
our  Government  in  limiting  the  time  for  funding  Treasury 
Notes  in  eight  per  cent,  bonds,  afterwards  limiting  a  time  for 
funding  at  seven  per  cent.,  and  so  on. 

We  think  it  highly  mischievous  to  allege  that  this  means  re- 
pudiation, either  in  whole  or  in  jiart.  In  fact  it  is  the  agency 
svliich  will  prevent  .all  necessity  or  excuse  lor  rcpudiati(.>n,  inas- 
much as  the  fmidi?)g,  thus  encouraged  and  hiu-ried,  helps  to 
jjrevcnt  the  purchasing  power  of  our  remaining  notes  from  going 
down  to  zero;  and  keeps  the  lial)ilities  of  the  country  within 
the  limits  of  ])(»ssible  payment. 

Besides,  this  constant  operation  of  speculators  in  frightening 
people  out  of  their  notes,  has  an  evil  political  effect,  as  well  as  a 
ruinous  financial  one.  Every  one  ought  to  know,  and  lay  to 
lieart  the  fact,  that  if  we  establish  our  independence,  all  the 
Treasury  Notes  are  as  good  as  minted  gold.    To  be  subdued 


SECOND  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.  117 

Avill  never  pay;  and  with  this  conviction — with  all  to  win,  or 
all  to  lose,  in  jiockct  as  well  as  in  honor — inon  will  he  more 
/oalous  to  win  the  caiisr,  or  die.  Life,  indeed,  would  be  a  small 
uiatter  to  save  out  of  the  c^eneral  ruin ;  because,  it  would  bo  the 
life  of  beggars  as  well  as  of  slaves. 

Therefore,  it  is  distinctly  disloyal  to  seek  to  discredit  our  cur- 
rency, by  scattering  abroad  doubts  and  fears.  The  (Tovennnent 
;nid  the  Congress,  we  believe,  have  acted  wisely  in  stimulating 
ilu'  funding  of  notes  and  diminishing  (after  ample  notice)  the 
loo  exorbitant  interest  on  their  Ixinds.  We  lind  some  ap])ro- 
|)riate  remarks  on  this  subjei't  in  the  Augusta  "Constitution 
alist',''  which  present  the  case  in  a  light  intelligible  to  all, 

"liCt  us  look  into  the  matter  a  little.  l>y  the  acjt  of  August 
iayt  Treasury  Notes  were  fundable  till  1st  April^  in  eight  ])er 
cent,  bonds — after  that  in  seven  ]>cr  cents.  But*l>y  the  act  of 
■\pril,  Treasury  Notes  issued  j^rior  to  Is^  December,  except  the 
f  u'o-year  notes,  were  fmidable  till  22tl  of  April  In  eight  percent, 
lionds — afterwards,  til!  August  next  in  seven  ])er  cents,  after  1st 
August  they  are  no  longer  fundable,  but  they  are  receivable,  till 
paid,  for  all  (Government  dues,  except  export  duties,  and  paya- 
ble, in  gold  or  its  eipiivalent,  six  months  afler  peace.  All  th;' 
twj)-ye3r  notes  are  fuiulable  till  .'ilst  Jiily  in  eight  per  cent, 
bonds,  ]>ayable  in  two  years — after  the  31st  of  Jidy  they  arc 
not  lundable,  but  jiayable  only  when  presented,  and  receivable' 
for  duties  an<l  taxes.  All  notes  issue<l.from  1st  December  to  (ith 
April  are  fundable  in  seven  ])er  cent,  bonds  till  1st  August — 
afterAvards  in  four  per  cents,  only,  but  receivable  for  duties  and 
taxes,  and  payable  after  peace.  Notes  issued  after  t3th  April  arr 
fvnidalde  in  six  per  ceuts  for  twelve  months  from  the  first  day 
of  the  month  of  their  issue,  afterwanls  in  lour  ]H'r  cents.  This 
is  the  system  a<lopted  by  the  last  (\ingr»;ss. 

"We  do  not  know  how  many  Treasury  Notes  were  issued  pie- 
vious  to  the  1st  Decfmber,  nor  how  many  have  since  been 
Onided.  Wcestimate,  however,  that  the  issue  then  outstanding, 
exclusive  of  interest  notcR,  two-year  notes  and  one  nnd  two 
dolhir  notes,  (not  fun<lable,)  was  alnuit  two  hinidred  and  fifty 
Tiiillicns.  Probably  sevcnty-H\e  millions  were  funded  to  the 
"jd  Ajuil,  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  ann.unt  in  all  ui.iy  reach 
100,000,000  by  August.  If  ro,  the  amount  of  those  left  will  bo 
onJy  fifty  millions,  every  <lolIar  of  which  is  as  good  as  gokl  for 
laxes,  and  will  be  absorbed  nn<ler  the  tax  l»ill.  Sr.  that  th«»ro  is 
-nt  the  slightest  reawon  why  HpeeiHali^rs  nnd  banks  should  refn^" 
;o  receive  notes  issued  prior  to  I)p(Tnd>pv — thus  <liHcreditinn 
ihe  eurrdv  y  of  the  country — the  issues  of  the  V'onfederate 
Treasury.  Those  notes  .are  jus i.  an  gu<>«l  as  any  Tre.isury  issues, 
and  partio-i  r^  fusing  l<»  receive  them  know  it.  They  are  ahv.iys 
receivable  for  taveM,  and  payable  bin  nit.nths  :Ul<'r  pi.<ace.  The 
notes  is8ue<l  itter  jRt  of  T)erember  and  previous  to  (itli  April 
are  equally  gu..(l— and    they  ive   fundablo   after    Jit   August, 


lis  THE  WOItfEN  OF  THE 

though  only  ia  four  per  cents — just  as  all  other  Treasury  Notes, 
issued  after  6th  April,  are  fundable  only  hi  four  per  cents,  twelve 
months  after  issue.  It  is  therefore  only  a  ruse  of  interested 
parties,  this  attempt  to  discredit  Treasury  Notes,  which  are  as 
good  as  any  issues." 


GOOD  PROSPECTS-FINANCIAL  AND  COMMERCIAL. 

KicHMOXP,  June  16,  1863. 

Thc^  Richmond  banks  are  receiving  "a  pcoring"  from  the 
press  of  this  and  other  States,  for  refusing  to  receive  or  ]>ay  ont, 
hereafter,  the  Confederate  Treasury  Notes  which  cease  to  be 
fundable  on  the  Istof  August.  Whilst  Ave  have  not  approved 
<if  the  proce.eding,  we  have  not  lost  sight  oi"  the  ft.ct  that  it  is 
the  policy  of  the  Government,  as  indicated  by  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  and  l»y  the  action  ol 
C'ongress,  to  "  demonetize"  these  notes  as  far  as  practicable  on 
and  after  the  1st  of  August,  and  that  the  banks  have  cither  to 
refuse  to  circulate  them  now,  or  to  continue  to  receive  them 
until  the  date  mentioned,  when  it  is  possible  that  they  would 
have  large  amounts  thrown  upon  their  hands  which  they  could 
not  use,  unl(!ss  they  and  the  people,  by  common  consent,  Avoidd 
continue  to  receive  and  pay  them  up  as  heretofore.  If  this  be 
done,  the  funding  act  is,  practically,  nullified,  and  the  relief  ex- 
}tected.  from  the  rctiren^ent  of  a  large  amount  of  paper  money 
defeated. 

It  is  evident,  therefore,  that  the  bank  directois  had  to  dispose 
of  u  "(lilemma."  On  the  one  hand,  they  would,  to  some  ex- 
tent, frustrate  the  purpose  of  CJongrcss.  On  the  other,  they 
M'ouM  excite  distrust  among  certain  classes  of  people,  and,  per- 
haps, produce  a  quaal  ))anic.  They  threw  the  Avcight  of  their 
own  self-intorest  into  the  balance,  and,  of  course,  decided  that 
th<^  would  trust  to  the  good  sense  and  ])atrioti8m  of  the  people 
to  avert  the  probable  consequence  of  their  action. 

We  employed  every  argument  to  convince  Congress  «f  the 
impolicy  of  the  "demonetising"  system,  which  foun<l  favt>r 
with  its  leading  members,  and  pointe<l  ont  some  of  the  evils  ol 
tli.at  system  which  have  already  presented  theniselves,  but  our 
<',ounsels  did  not,  of  coarse,  prevail,  and  w(!  now  have  a  system 
of  finance  which,  in  part,  contemplates  the  foi'cing  out  of  circu- 
lation, on  the  1st  of  ^Vugust,  by  funding  and  ]>aymentof  taxes, 
of  about  $140,000,000  of  currency.  If  this  object  is  attained, 
the  result  Avill  })e  highly  beneficial.  'I'he  currency  will  be  de- 
j)leted,  and,  eonse(iuently,  the  ])rices  will  decline,  or,  the  notes 
remaining  in  circuhition,  will  have  an  increase^l  purchasing 
power.  Will  this  be  accomplished  ?  Certainly,  it  Avill,  if  the 
action'of  the  Richmond  banks  be  followed  up  by  the  banks  else- 
where in  the  Confederacy,  and  by  the  refusal  of  the  people 
generally  to  receive  the  discredited  notes.     But,  it  may  be  au- 


SECOND  AMERICAN  RF.VOTXTTON.  119 

com})lisho(l  without  this  wholesale  discrediting,  and  hence  wo 
aro  diejiosed  to  belicvo  tliat  the  Itanka  wcve  too  jirecipilate  in 
rulinnr  out  tlio  oM  issne. 

The  thforvof  tlic  Treasury  l)ei)artmcnt  is  that  the  process  o( 
funding  and  the  tax  levy  Avill  al)Horl>  all,  or  the  greater  portion 
of"  this  issue.  This  ev])e('tation  is  so  reasonable  that  we  liavc 
hen-telore  e.vi»re«siMl  the  earnest  hope  that  the  merchants, 
tradesmen  an<l  other><  should  continue  to  reiu'ive,  at  h\ast,  a  poi 
t ion  of  the  notes  issued  j)vior  to  December  1st.  For  the  same 
r«>ason,  W(^  believe  that  the  banks  could  hav<'  postponed  their 
action  until  the  middle  of  .luly,  liy  A\hich  tinu^  it  is  jiORsibh'  that 
the  veiy  "slowcoach" — the  "  War  Tax,"  will  begin  to  make 
itself  felt  as  an  absorbent  of  redundant  cash.  '^Phe  b.anks  a<l- 
here<l  to  their  resolution,  and  the  business  men,  inst(Mvd  o|'  eon- 
ferring  together,  and  acting  in  c<^ncert,  are  rejecting  or  receiving 
the  old  issue,  acc<u'ding  to  their  individual  avarice,  patriotism, 
or  views  of  inoxpediency. 

It  is  obvious  that  much  needless  vexation,  inconvenience,  dis 
trust  and  loss  will  result  from  even  the  jiartial  exclusion  of  these 
notes  from  circulation.  If  every  mnn  Avould  recciv*',  say  one- 
half  or  one-fourth  of  them  in  tlie  payment  of  a  debt,  they  woidd 
be  ke)»t  aHoat  until  the  war  tax  collector  presented  his  bills,  and 
then,  as  everybo<l},  with  a  grain  of  senise,  woidd  [»!\y  his  taxes 
in  these  notes,  tlu'y  would,  of  course,  gradually  disa|>jtear  from 
circulation,  and  the  object  of  the  fuiiding  act  be  accom])lished. 
We  trust,  therefore,  that  the  people  generally  will  continue  to 
circulate  them  as  freely  as  they  diil  ind^ankable  Nortli  ('ar<>lina 
notes,  before  the  war.  Those  who  refuse  to  <lo  bo  will  Kubject 
themselves  to  a  disparaging  remembr.ance. 

Afr.  J.  S,  O'Snllivan,  of  New  York,  late  AFinlHter  of  tlie 
United  States  to  Portugal,  has  written  a  lengthy  and  eloquent 
letter  in  favor  of  "j»e:ice  at  all  hazardB."  Mis  letter  is  date.l  ai 
London,  inth  Ajtril,  lHr,.^,  aii«l  contains  this  declaration  : 

*' Ab  a  trustee,  I  would  at  this  moment  prefi-r  to  place  trust 
fimds  for  peruianent  inveHtnjent  in  tin;  Southern  war  debt,  at 
par,  rather  than  in  llie  Northern  at  onei'ourth  of  its  faw.  'J'he 
one  can  be  ]»aid  and  will  be  paid;  the  other  m-ither  will  noj 
can. 

In  this  declaration  we  liave  the  judgment  ol  an  intelligent  and 
an]>reiinliced  observer  <ii'  the  war  in  this  country.  Ilr  vit?w 
the  cfintest  from  a  stand-point  which  enaliles  him  to  form  ;i 
cx)rrcct  ojiinion  of  tlie  jirobable  result,  and  in  exercising  hi  . 
reasoning  faculties,  h«-  lias  evidently  been  aided  b\  n  iii^i  ,om 
prehension  of  the  resources  of  the  Stales  con)|»<'  <  .,n- 

I'ederacy  The  r-tmfidence  lie  e\]*resHvs  in  the  i ;...,,,  ,  ,.,n  of 
our  war  di  bt  is  sharrni  by  those  capitalists  of  (itreat  Krif  aiii  who 
hav« subscribcrd  to  tbe  Lonfederate  loan  recently  effected  in  Lon- 
don, anil  we  <lonV»t  not  the  judgment  upon  which  this  ■  r.nfidence 


Vj,li  THF  WO^tEN  OF  THTi: 

IS  l)ase(1  prevails  in  every  intellicje'ot  and  nnbiasecl  cirrle  in 
Enroj^e. 

Tf  tills  l»e  s<^.^  (and  wlio  can  ;.';ain3ay  it?)  miffht  not  a  mnoli 
stronger  degree  of  confidence  in  the  ability  of  the  Confederate 
<  fovernment  to  ni*,ot  and  liqnidate  every  pecuniary  obligation 
Hxist  among  the  people  of  the  (confederate  State.s  ?  \Ve  are 
iiappy  to  know  it  does  exist,  to  a  very  wide  extent,  Imt  at  the 
,vauie  .'i me,  there  in  too  nuich  tenacity  on  the  part  of  gold- 
hoarders,  Avlio  constitute  a  very  lai'ge  amount  of  specie.  This 
tenacious  grasp  ot  the  precious  gold  cannot  be  construed  other- 
wise than  as  a  distrust  of  the  result  of  the  contest.  If  we  are 
to  Hclneve  our  independence,  why  hold  on  to  gold  C(un,  whicii 
brings  in  no  interest  whilst  Confederate  Bonds  are  so  easily 
jturchased,  which  do  yield  interest  ?  We  <lo  not  argue  that  it 
is  neither  patriotic  nor  wise  to  hold  any  gold,  but  we  would 
ask  those  who  have  put  away  coin  to  consider  whether  the  time 
has  not  now  arrived  when  they  should  part  with  at  least  a  j^or- 
tion  of  their  hoards  ?  Gold  is  wanted  for  commercial  purposes, 
and  there  may  be  persons  who  have  become  glutted  a\  ith  gain 
who  are  eagea*  to  convert  their  Treasury  Notes  into  specie, 
Tlie  demand  certainly  exists,  and  this,  together  with  the 
scarcity,  has  put  the  premium  up  to  a  Jiigh  figure.  The  brokeu'S 
will  give  about  $lt>  in  Treasury  Notes  for  |2  in  gold.-  Is  this 
not  allurement  enough,  if  it  be  true,  as  Mr.  O'tSuUivan  says, 
tliat  the  Confederate  war  debt  "can  and  will  be  paid?"  But 
we  will  not  pursue  the  subject.  Every  one  must  determine  for 
himself  whether  he  will  be  wise  or  foolish  in  holding  on  to  his 
gold  when  he  can  sell  it  for  $V  premium,  and  invest  the  money 
in  seven  per  cent.  Confederate  Bonds  at  par.  We  are  on  the 
eve  of  important  and  decisive  events,  and  people  may  well  be 
exrnsed  for  awaiting  the  issue  of  those  events,  but  the  de- 
velopement  may  be  attcmded  AvHh  a  collapse  in  the  premium  for 
!-pecie,  and  thus  the  "golden  opportunity"  alluded  to  may  be 
lost. 

Confederate  eight  per  cent,  bonds  were  sold  at  auction  in 
Augusta,  Ga,,  on  the  12th  inst,,  at  i^^l'irt,  and  interest.  We 
presume  they  were  registered  bonds  of  the  tifteen  million  loan. 

Hichmond  Whig. 


I  N  D  e: 


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PAGE. 

A  Female  Soldier 7 

A  Female  Ai(l-de-Canip 7 

Miss   Belle   Boyd,    "The   Rebel 

Spy." 8 

Aliss  JSorah  McCartey — A  lit  mi- 
niscence  of  the  Missouri  Cam- 

paisrn 0 

A  Brav*  Girl 12 

Fiendish  Onti age  upon  Women.  12 
Unparalleled  Atrocity  of  Yankee 

Demons IS 

The  Women  of  Winchester,  Va.  14 
A  Spirited  Lady  of  North  Laio- 

Hna 14 

Murdering  Women ' 15 

.The  Ba\  onet !  The  Needle !  The 

Plow'! 15 

A  Patriotic  Lr.dy 10 

Patriotic  Coniribution 16 

Yank ees  or  Hyenas V "...   10 

The  Virtues  of  woman 17 

What  can  Woman  Oo  V ID 

"  God's  Last,  Best  Gift  to  Man," 

WoniHU  a  Ministering  Anj^el. .  21 
Beautiful  Eulogium  ai  d  Tri:  ute 
to  Woman — Woman's  Heroism  22 

The  Society  ol  Woman 22 

To  all  Soufheni  Ladies 

Why  not  Import  Provisions  V. ...  24 

Atrocities  of  the  Federals 25 

Yankee  Biutality 20 

An  Appesil  from  Women 26 

Bitter  Femide  Secessionists 2b 

An  Ai  ifiil  Didge 29 

Acts  of  Kindness  and  Devotion  of 

the  Ladies  of  Louisville,  Ky.. .  29 
Miium  thou  Land  of  Flowers — 
Banishment  of  Families  from 
St.  Augustine,  Florida-  inhu- 
man Treatment  of  Women  and 
Chil(^en— The  Federals  at  N. 

Orli  aiis,  Louisiana 30 

A  Cry  for  Vengeance — Later  from 

Missouri 32 

Home  for  Invalid  Ladies— Inter- 
esting Corre'^pcndence  —  Wo- 
men Always  Foremost  in  Pio- 


rr.otine    a    Good    Caus''>^^^^^  /.- 
Blths  Her  Eflbiis  wiiii  Success. 

The  Worth  of  Woman 

Man  and  Woman 

The  Women  of  the  West 

Atrocities  of  Lincoln's  Officials.. 

The  Ladies  Making  Shoe? 

The  Ladies  and  Gen.  Price — Pre- 
sentation to  Gen.  Price 

Thi'  Grtalest  Atiocity  yet  of-  the 
Enemy '. 

Robbery  of  a  Laay 

Patriotic  and  True  Devotion  of 
Woman 

Startling  Revelations  yy  a  Mis- 
sourian  wio  wns  to  have  been 
Hung  by  the  Yankees 

The  Ten  Missouri  Murders 

Atrocious  Murder  by  Yankees  in 
Missouri 

Incidents  cf  the  Battle  of  Frcf^c- 
ricksburg— The  People  of  the 
Town  who  Ren  aintd  —  The 
W  omen 

A  Confederate  Alphabet 

Northern  Virtue. 

Union  Sentiment  in  N<'W  Orleans. 

The  Greatest  Battle 

Gen.  Let's  Address  to  his  Arnty . 

First  Naval  Victory  hi  Virginia— 
History  of  tie  MnTimnc  s  nd 
her  'Commandir.  Admiral 
Franklin  Buciiauan 

The  First  NhvuI  Victory  on  the 
Mihsissippi  Riv«r  by  Gen.  Jcfl'. 
Thom)  son 

Official  Report  of  tlie  N;;val  En- 
giigcmcnt  and  Victory  at  Ga! 
vcsion,  Texas 

Interesiing  Order  of  Maj.  Gen. 
Magrrdt  r— Comi'iiinentary  Ac- 
krowhdgment  of  the  daring 
and  gallantry  of  oflicers  and 
men  who  vied  with  each  other 
in  the  rreat  Naval  En^jfgeinent 
with  the  Blockading  Fleet  on 
the  Coast  of  Texas 


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stroiigor  degree  of  con fiderr  •••63 
<  Government  to  nK.t  and  P^^.^- 
Hxi.Ht  aniono-  the  ])eople  "^y..^^^*  64 
imppy  to  knov^ijt  djory  — Yankee 
^auie   rime,  ! 'Repulsed  with  Great 

\J*oo  ••'"'I'jftss 71 

A.  Yankee  Estimate  of  General 

Beauregard 74 

The  Fight  at  Charleston 75 

Wailing  and  gnashing  ot  teeth  by 
the  Yankees — The  last  hours 

of  the  Keokuk 76 

A  wail  from  the  "Tribune." 76 

Charleston  Impregnable 77 

Interesting  History  of  the  Open- 
ing of  the  Alabama's  Career. . .  77 
Confederate  Steamer  Alabama — 
The  London  "  Times  "  on  the 

"290." 81 

Confederate  Steamer  Alabama. . .  81 
The  Sea  Fight  between  the  Hat- 

teras  and  the  Alabama 82 

The  Steamer  Alabama  at  King- 
•    ston — A   Curious    lacident  of 

the  War ...  83 

An  Incident  connected  with  the 
sailing  and  running  of  the 
Blockade   by  the  Confederate 

war  steamer  Florida 83 

The  Terrors  of  the  Sea — Career 
of  the  Florida— Description  of 

her  officers  and  style 84 

The    Confederate    war    steamer 

Florida  at  Barbadoes 86 

The  Retribution 86 


A  compliment  to  Liverpool 

A  Rattlesnake  oa  the  Ocean 

Progress  of  the  War— Affecting 
Incident — One  of  the  results  of 

the  War 

Incidents  of  the   capture  of  the 

Harriet  Lane 

Queen  of  the  West— Further  Par- 
ticulars  

The  capture  of  the  United  States 
gunboat  ludianola  on  the  Mis- 
sissippi— Enemies  Account — 

Ships  against  Forts 91 

The  Battl^  at  Genesis  Point 93 

Interesting  sketch  of  Ingraham 
and  Rutledge , 93 


PAeK 

CFuited  States  and  Con'eder- 

fHF  WOIIEN  OF  T-e  Naval  Forces gg 

A.  duty  paramount  to  every  con- 
sidi  ration  of  profit — An  appeal 

to  raise  BreadstufiFs  99 

The  appeal  of  the  Alabama  Dele- 
gation  101 

Planting  and  Farming  Hints. . .  .102 

Spare  the  Gardens 103 

Home  Medicines — The  Poppy  for 

Opium 103 

"  Farming  in  the  South" 103 

The  Cheapest  Food 104 

Something  to  be  Done 104 

A  Model  Boy 104 

Gen.  Pillow  and  the  President..  .105 
Stampede  of  Contraband  Troops  .'105 
A  valuable  suggestion  to   Plant- 
ers  106 

Patriotism  of  Negroes — The  old 

Drummer  of  Chalmette..' 106 

Negro  Patriotism 106 

A  Loyal  Negro 107 

The  Murder' of  the  Black  Race.  .108 
No  Love  for  Sambo — Negroes  ex- 
pelled from  Indiana 109 

The  Negroes  to  be  forced  to  fight.  110 
One  Yankee  and  three  Negroes   . 

Buried  in  one  Hoie. 110 

The  Negroes  begin  to  "Hurt"  in 

Massachusetts 110 

A  full  Yankee  Lieutenant  a  Ne- 
gro  HI 

The  Negro  in  this  War Ill 

Crime  and  its  Punishment 112 

The  Key  to  the  Prosperity  of  the 

Confederacy 112 

The  Negro  and  the  Yankee — The 
Yankee  Hangs  the  Negro — and 

his  opinion  of  him 112 

Derivation  and  Meaning  of  the 

word  Yankee ,113 

New  Slave  Trade 113 

A  Joyiul  Return 114 

The  Return  of  a  Slave 114 

Never  Give  Up 114 

Dr.  North's  Treatment  in  a  Yan- 
kee Prison— A  Faithful  Ne- 
gro— Camp  near  Fredericks- 
burg, February  8,  1863 115 

Yankeee  Hypocrisy  and  Barbari- 
ty Ulustratt  d 116 

Confederate  Money — Its  Funda- 
bility  and  Current  Value  after 
the  first  limited  time  for  Fund- 
ing made  Intelligible  to  all 116 

Good  Prospects — Financial  and 
Commercial 118 


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PATRIOT'S  FRIEND, 


COXTA.INING  IfUMKBOUS 


IMPORTANT  AND  THRILLING  EVENTS 


OF  THK 


PKESJENT  REVOLUTION. 


Will  shortly  make  its  appearance  in  a  new  edition.    I  will  doiate 

twenty-five  cents  on  each  copy  sold  towards  the  establish  meat 

and  support  of  a  Soldiers^  Orphan  School,  male  and  female. 


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OF  THE 


CONTAINING  A  VARIETY  OF 

POEMS,  BALLADS,  SONGS,  &c. 

_^>om  the  (liferent  States  and  members  of  the  Southern  Con-   '^^ 
federacy,  haomg  a  hearhuj  upon  our  national  strug'jle 
.    for  indepeiidence — dating  from  the  commencement 
of    the    Second    American    Revolution. 


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Tflke  heed,  ye  Family  nf  Nations, 
You've  iieard  a  mw  member's  born, 

Which  assumes  gigan'ic  proportions. 
While  another  to  f).i..menta  is  torn. 

Our  object  is  peace  and  good  will, 
To  all  nations  and  mankind  ; 

Our  fields  many  garnerri  can  iill : 
At  our  bands  all  justice  can  find. 


3BY  H.  \^.  It.  ,TACI£SO]V, 

AIKEN,  SOUTH   CAEOLINA. 


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